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Author - John C. Calhoun
Quotes by : John C. Calhoun
Great
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in....
Man
Were there no contrariety of interests, nothing would be more simple and easy than to form and preserve....
Liberty
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
Diversity
I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do....
Power
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense....
Action
There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.....
Rights
When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and....
Liberty
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread....
Unknown
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence....
Kind
I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one,....
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