James Buchanan actually said...

"With my deep convictions of duty I could have pursued no other course."

"The resistance to rightful authority and the persevering attempts to establish a revolutionary government under the Topeka constitution which caused the people of Kansas to commit the grave error of r..."

"The just equality of all the States has thus been vindicated and a fruitful source of dangerous dissension among them has been removed."

"The principle has been recognized in some form or other by an almost unanimous vote of both Houses of Congress that a Territory has a right to come into the Union either as a free or a slave State, ac..."