More from John C. Calhoun

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

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