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James Buchanan Inspirational Quotes (17)
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People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.
James M. Buchanan
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
James Buchanan
We want to limit the exploitation of the fiscal capacity of the richer regions by keeping down the rate of immigration to a level that would be meaningful and efficient. One way to do that is to have a scheme of equalization which essential bribes people to stay in the poorer regions.
James M. Buchanan
The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
James Buchanan
All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.
James Buchanan
Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.
James M. Buchanan
Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
James Buchanan
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
James Buchanan
Clearly, I am not an anarchist. Philosophically, I might be, but I think in practical terms.
James M. Buchanan
America is perhaps excessively mobile in the sense that there is sometimes not enough stability in communities. Dynamism in the economy is not necessarily the be all and end all.
James M. Buchanan
The course of events is so rapidly hastening forward that the emergency may soon arise when you may be called upon to decide the momentous question whether you possess the power by force of arms to compel a State to remain in the Union
James Buchanan
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan
If politicians get money to spend and don't have to be responsible for taxation, then of course that will bias their attitude toward more spending as opposed to cutting back on spending.
James M. Buchanan
Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.
James Buchanan
The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.
James Buchanan
There is nothing stable but Heaven and the Constitution.
James Buchanan
Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have to get people to treat the idea of a free society as a civic religion or a faith. We need to fight for that faith.
James M. Buchanan