Quotes by : John C. Calhoun

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in....

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not....

Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve....

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do....

I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense....

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.....

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread....

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding....

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.