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John C. Calhoun Quotes
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Type: Statesman Quotes Category: American Statesman Quotes Date of Birth: March 18, 1782 Date of Death: March 31, 1850 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: John C. Calhoun Related Authors: Daniel Webster Colin Powell Warren Christopher Condoleezza Rice Henry L. Stimson William H. Seward George Mason Morning Star |
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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