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....

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

I hold that there is a mysterious connection between the fate of this country and that of Mexico so much....

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

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and....

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....

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