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John C. Calhoun Quotes

Type:
Statesman Quotes
Category:
American Statesman Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 18, 1782
Date of Death:
March 31, 1850
Nationality:
American
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John C. Calhoun

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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
John C. Calhoun

Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
John C. Calhoun

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
John C. Calhoun

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
John C. Calhoun

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
John C. Calhoun

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
John C. Calhoun

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun


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