You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.

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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

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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

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The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. -James Buchanan

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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. -James Buchanan

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I like the noise of democracy. - James Buchanan

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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. - James Buchanan

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If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. - James Buchanan

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What is right and what is practicable are two different things. - James Buchanan

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Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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