John C. Calhoun Quotes

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

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 actio...

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

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

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

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

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

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

True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and ...

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

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

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

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

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

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