James Buchanan quote: "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."

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JAMES BUCHANAN

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
JAMES BUCHANAN

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
JAMES BUCHANAN

People from different traditions, don't realize what they will encounter.
JAMES BUCHANAN

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a...
JAMES BUCHANAN

because of his age.
JAMES BUCHANAN

I like the noise of democracy.
JAMES BUCHANAN

It wasn't a cake walk in Basra but it's going to be a lot, lot more dangerous up there,
JAMES BUCHANAN

The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is...
JAMES BUCHANAN

If you arre as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

We spent some time at practice finishing. We tried some new things and setups and the boys went out ...
JAMES BUCHANAN

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us phy...
JAMES BUCHANAN

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, y...
JAMES BUCHANAN

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention ...
JAMES M. BUCHANAN

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell...
JAMES M. BUCHANAN

The eighteenth century discovery that, in an institutional framework that facilitates voluntary exch...
JAMES M. BUCHANAN

I'm going to reach out to everybody, Democrat, Republican and independent. I'm going to work...
VERN BUCHANAN

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose,...
VERN BUCHANAN

Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
VERN BUCHANAN

To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiw...
PAT BUCHANAN

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
PAT BUCHANAN

All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody c...
PAT BUCHANAN

I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and '94.
PAT BUCHANAN

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for wh...
PAT BUCHANAN

While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the wor...
PAT BUCHANAN

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
PAT BUCHANAN

If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not trea...
PAT BUCHANAN

President Trump's seeming renunciation of an anti-interventionist foreign policy is the great su...
PAT BUCHANAN

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
PAT BUCHANAN

Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguisti...
PAT BUCHANAN

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
PAT BUCHANAN

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
PAT BUCHANAN

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet...
PAT BUCHANAN

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from othe...
PAT BUCHANAN

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
PAT BUCHANAN

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
PAT BUCHANAN

As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil...
PAT BUCHANAN

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International...
PAT BUCHANAN

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
PAT BUCHANAN

I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt trac...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide ...
PAT BUCHANAN

Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
EDNA BUCHANAN

She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
ROBERT BUCHANAN

Dear Ted: Thanks for the invitation to question four distinguished liberal journalists. But 11:30 PM...
PATRICK BUCHANAN

Among the achievements celebrated in Trump's first 100 days are the 59 cruise missiles launched ...
PAT BUCHANAN

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre...
PAT BUCHANAN

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture....
PAT BUCHANAN

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation....
PAT BUCHANAN

As a result of things that may have happened in their past, women seem to find it hard to trust anyb...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN

Ideally, I would have hoped these people would have heard the fat lady singing and they would have r...
BAY BUCHANAN

You basically ignited a prairie fire that's taken off across this country. It's not a Republican or ...
BAY BUCHANAN

We can't continue on this path, or we may lose this country.
BAY BUCHANAN

I'm telling you, guys just turn that thing off because they've heard it too much at home.
BAY BUCHANAN

He took full responsibility, what more do they want?
BAY BUCHANAN

He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and t...
BAY BUCHANAN

It says that [if] the crab industry can't find people to work for minimum wage, they can bring in pe...
BAY BUCHANAN

We worked very closely with the nominating committee ... We followed exactly their instructions.
BAY BUCHANAN

We have to put doubt in their minds that she'll be strong on national security and then she's done.
BAY BUCHANAN

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
PAT BUCHANAN

Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
PAT BUCHANAN

While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs...
PAT BUCHANAN

I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and tha...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of...
PAT BUCHANAN

Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, be...
PAT BUCHANAN

Turkey, a powerful and reliable ally of the U.S. through the Cold War, appears to be coming unmoored...
PAT BUCHANAN

Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators b...
PAT BUCHANAN

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the a...
PAT BUCHANAN

I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think...
PAT BUCHANAN

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were int...
PAT BUCHANAN

Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
PAT BUCHANAN

Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impos...
PAT BUCHANAN

Angela Merkel puts Germany first.
PAT BUCHANAN

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is...
PAT BUCHANAN

Stop exporting American jobs. Stop exporting American factories, and stop exporting American soverei...
PAT BUCHANAN

If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to wa...
PAT BUCHANAN

Bush likes people who keep low profiles. He likes to be the star. He doesn't like competition from w...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

Well, he is more careful, more cautious. He's protecting a lead. He's very sensitive to the fact tha...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

There is a tendency for current news to supplant old news, but the hit he took on Katrina, coupled w...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

Texas comes out smelling like a rose so far.
BRUCE BUCHANAN

My guess is they (the president and first lady) are discussing tradeoffs between SMU and Baylor but ...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

I really didn't expect him to come off sounding like FDR, even though he mixed in some standard Repu...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

[The rebuilding efforts ahead will take place in the White House as well as along the Gulf Coast, sa...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

Bush could go with somebody unexpected, like a politician, that could throw the opposition a little ...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

The reason that trust is so important has to do with the long-standing belief that you could trust h...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

Bush's standing with the public is a factor in his ongoing effort to influence legislation and to su...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They wi...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN

If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone at...
PAT BUCHANAN

I couldn't believe it. There was blood everywhere.
BUCK BUCHANAN

I don't know of a single Five Star dealer who hasn't taken advantage of the situation. Buyers have t...
BUCK BUCHANAN

It's important so the spouses have someplace close to go without having to go to (the national veter...
BUCK BUCHANAN

A day without Aloha is just another mainland day.
BUCK BUCHANAN

They can not dictate price, ... I went to a meeting three weeks ago with a (DaimlerChrysler) rep and...
BUCK BUCHANAN

Indiana was kind of like the common ground for all to come to at certain times in history.
BRIAN BUCHANAN

He was really good. He was in control of the game all night long. You really can't say enough good t...
BRIAN BUCHANAN

And then I see them at the games, and they just go, go, go. I never hear them complain. Heck, they'r...
BRIAN BUCHANAN

When you have the game almost taken away from you, and you're trying to get a job, you try to make t...
BRIAN BUCHANAN

They said they'd bring me to as many games as they could out of [the Minor League] mini-camp. I've p...
BRIAN BUCHANAN

It's feast or famine. Some are getting (sales growth through discounts), some are getting it at full...
BOB BUCHANAN

Good technology is ensuring that the right product is in the store at the right time.
BOB BUCHANAN

Federated (Department Stores) was below plan. Target was well below plan, ... We have enough data to...
BOB BUCHANAN

It's certainly disappointing by any measure, ... I think the industry is going to be close to flat, ...
BOB BUCHANAN

It looks like sales really happened in the last few days, following a pattern we've seen in the last...
BOB BUCHANAN

We've gone from a situation where retailers were wildly excited about the prospects for 1996 to one ...
BOB BUCHANAN

My hope would be that with the two dolls, they'll be able to appeal to a broader range of ages.
BOB BUCHANAN

It looks like in some cases, there's going to be some disappointing results coming out.
BOB BUCHANAN

Clearly, there are some overtones for the industry, but I think largely Wal-Mart has some of its own...
BOB BUCHANAN

The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country the...
PAT BUCHANAN

A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran's northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdista...
PAT BUCHANAN

While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Ba...
PAT BUCHANAN

Bush II's democracy crusade and Obama's embrace of the Arab Spring have unleashed and empowe...
PAT BUCHANAN

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
EDNA BUCHANAN

If Life had a rewind button , we would never move forward
MATTHEW BUCHANAN

During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to...
PAT BUCHANAN

Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will...
FRANKLIN BUCHANAN

Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, ...
PATRICK BUCHANAN

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple - a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a ...
PATRICK BUCHANAN

Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men fr...
PATRICK BUCHANAN

Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children.
PAT BUCHANAN

Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cas...
PAT BUCHANAN

It's a long haul, but it's a good batting wicket. There is three days to go. Our job is to resurrect...
JOHN BUCHANAN

The general outlook is not that the person has died but that the person has lived.
WILLIAM BUCHANAN

Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for mar...
PAT BUCHANAN

One can only imagine how Iranians or Afghans would deal with unelected judges moving to de-Islamiciz...
PAT BUCHANAN

Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as ...
PAT BUCHANAN

The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the w...
PAT BUCHANAN

One medal. One shot. One lap. Eight riders. No lanes. No right of way. Just go.
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

It was an incredible spell from Glenn, no question,
JOHN BUCHANAN

[There are no significant differences between Bush and Gore on many issues, Buchanan said.] They bot...
PAT BUCHANAN

The guy is drinking. He was harassing. You put two and two together.
WILLIAM BUCHANAN

He had his hands in his pockets the whole time. He had his hands on something big. He had no license...
WILLIAM BUCHANAN

There is too wide a gap, for most of us, between what we say and what we mean. Between our words and...
MARK BUCHANAN

Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.
MARK BUCHANAN

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
PAT BUCHANAN

I said these trade deals are going to be terrible: we're going to lose manufacturing jobs, facto...
PAT BUCHANAN

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.
MARK BUCHANAN

Everything before then was written off as savagery or barbarism. Any story that involved heroism was...
NIC BUCHANAN

Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.
PATRICK BUCHANAN

Can I be blunt?
KEISHA BUCHANAN

Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were b...
PAT BUCHANAN

We came from hoping to win to expecting to win, and hopefully, down the road, we know we're going to...
DAVE BUCHANAN

Or will it take some cataclysmic act of violence on U.S. soil to finally awaken our gamesmen to the ...
PAT BUCHANAN

As one who has supported every great foreign policy initiative from Kennedy to Reagan, I reject the ...
PAT BUCHANAN

Well, if there's poison in the beer, you shut down St. Patty's day,
PAT BUCHANAN

We had every right, and we were more than right ... just and moral to smash (Germany and Japan),
PAT BUCHANAN

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International Hou...
PAT BUCHANAN

Our system is not one of justice, but of law
EDNA BUCHANAN

It kind of lances the boil.
BRUCE BUCHANAN

I think, in BMX, it's a lot like horse racing. I wouldn't really bet on it.
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding, was by 1968 a fail...
PAT BUCHANAN

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that ...
PAT BUCHANAN

It still remains not a very wise, or safe, or even sane policy to try to liberate a village by destr...
JOHN BUCHANAN

have declared war on human nature, and nature is exacting an awful retribution.
PAT BUCHANAN

We will no longer squander the blood of our soldiers fighting other countries' wars or the wealth of...
PAT BUCHANAN

My home is kind of like a showroom.
CLAUDIA BUCHANAN

What you have is someone with a fundamental distrust of government rolling the dice, cutting taxes a...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

It is quite revealing of things that had been suspected about which there had been little clear evid...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We ...
PATRICK BUCHANAN

This looks to be a relatively inexpensive, potentially important intervention that farmers can do; h...
ROBERT BUCHANAN

[After the first innings at Old Trafford, Australia's coach, John Buchanan, was asked to explain the...
JOHN BUCHANAN

It is dangerous to be America's enemy, but fatal to be America's friend.
PAT BUCHANAN

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
EDNA BUCHANAN

I do see this as a response to a weakened political situation, a willingness to do what it takes to ...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

It's our job now to resurrect the ship a bit and put ourselves in a position where, if we can't get ...
JOHN BUCHANAN

I'm running today because I have lived that American dream. I think it's at risk and to sit on the s...
VERN BUCHANAN

There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sen...
PATRICK BUCHANAN

The primary difference is in the shows. If a person wants Howard Stern or National Public Radio or a...
PAUL BUCHANAN

her qualifications for the Supreme Court are nonexistent.
PAT BUCHANAN

It does supplant the memories (of Katrina), assuming he does well. But it might be a little hyperbol...
BRUCE BUCHANAN

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.
PAT BUCHANAN

This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
MARK BUCHANAN

a very closed and rigged system.
PAT BUCHANAN

...You say to God, “I have never seen you provide for me.”
God says to you, “You have ne...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.
MARK BUCHANAN

Bush has us back on the team, ready to cheer for him unreservedly.
PAT BUCHANAN

What has been done with the opportunity?
PAT BUCHANAN

I'm not sure the President wants to see Roe v. Wade overturned, ... wants to see the decision return...
PAT BUCHANAN

programmed and scripted to stay away from controversy.
PAT BUCHANAN

It is time to say 'yes' to Europe, time to let go, as doting parents whose children have reached mat...
PAT BUCHANAN

I cannot endorse the Republican nominee as of now. I cannot make that commitment because my party at...
PAT BUCHANAN

Mr. Bush is even in favor of expanding our Department of Education,
PAT BUCHANAN

The only thing they have got is about eight or 10 people in positions of power and influence who are...
PAT BUCHANAN

We are the candidate. We're going to get the money.
PAT BUCHANAN

For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have now...
PAT BUCHANAN

It's like Coke and Pepsi saying no other soft drink can enter the market unless they meet a certain ...
PAT BUCHANAN

In the long run, one of the great threats to this country is its tendency to dissolve along the line...
PAT BUCHANAN

was an opportunity to get our message out and de-demonize ourselves.
PAT BUCHANAN

On an intellectual level, it stayed up on that level, ... It didn't get down to anything grisly, so ...
PAT BUCHANAN

what he did was help destroy an enormously popular president and, partly as a consequence of that, w...
PAT BUCHANAN

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intende...
PAT BUCHANAN

Piece by piece, job by job, factory by factory, (American industry) is being carted off to foreign s...
PAT BUCHANAN

[Earlier Thursday, on NBC's] Today ... want to take any votes that do not belong to me.
PAT BUCHANAN

America has no vital interest in whose flag flies over Kosovo's capital, and no right to attack and ...
PAT BUCHANAN

Neither Beltway party is going to drain this swamp, because to them it is not a swamp at all, but a ...
PAT BUCHANAN

American's jobs are being taken by illegal immigrants. They don't deserve it and shouldn't get the b...
PAT BUCHANAN

They were not really big into football down there. Basketball was what they primarily played.
BILL BUCHANAN

The basketball team went undefeated and I didn't want to be left out. The football team went undefea...
BILL BUCHANAN

That's difficult to say. I had quite a few experiences that were very emotional and important to me....
BILL BUCHANAN

I think there is still a bit of conjecture about what we want to do,
JOHN BUCHANAN

It's maddening. I didn't get depressed or hang my head. I was frustrated with myself because I know ...
KAYLE BUCHANAN

become two wings of the same bird of prey.
PAT 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.

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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.

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