John C. Calhoun Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

  John C. Calhoun

  Exercise, Liberty, Inconsistent

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.29

• Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, Safety, Political

  John C. Calhoun's speech on the Oregon Bill, teachingamericanhistory.org. June 27, 1848.

• It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Peace, Freedom, War

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 4”, Jazzybee Verlag

• Of all earthly blessings, I place Liberty in the first rank, and of course, consider the obligation to defend and preserve it, as the most sacred of all our civil and social duties... It is not in the power of any single, or few individuals to preserve liberty. It can only be effected by the people themselves; by their intelligence, virtue, courage, and patriotism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Blessing, People, Liberty

• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in banks.

  John C. Calhoun

  Powerful, Government, People

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

• The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as sovereign and independent communities.

  John C. Calhoun

  Party, Independent, Errors

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.73

• The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, Democracy, Liberty

• The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

  John C. Calhoun

  War, Liberty, Slavery

• We have had so many years of prosperity, we have passed through so many difficulties and dangers without the loss of liberty - that we begin to think that we hold it by divine right from heaven itself ... It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

  John C. Calhoun

  Loss, Thinking, Years

• The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.

  John C. Calhoun

  Rights, Liberty, Benefits

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