More from John C. Calhoun

  1. The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when …
  2. The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for t…
  3. A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined …
  4. Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population to…
  5. The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
  6. It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
  7. Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
  8. Our Federal Union, next to our liberty most dear.

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