Quote #10
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
More from John C. Calhoun
- Our Federal Union, next to our liberty most dear.
- Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
- Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
- The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must alwa…
- It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
- The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
- Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population to…
- A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined …