Quotes by : John C. Calhoun

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

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free....

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....

The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence....

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

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one,....