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• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Transition

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

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• 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

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• How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves? ... Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

  John C. Calhoun

  Strong, Mean, Government

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• Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

  John C. Calhoun

  Political, Politics, Protection

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

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• A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

  John C. Calhoun

  Blessing, Revolution

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

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• To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws . . .

  John C. Calhoun

  America, Law, Majority

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

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• True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances, and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.

  John C. Calhoun

  Wise, Consistency, Way

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

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• It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, Community, Political

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.113

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• The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

  John C. Calhoun

  Life, Inferiority, Surrender

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• I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.

  John C. Calhoun

  Thinking, Wish, South Carolina

  Attributed to John C. Calhoun in Walter J. Miller "Calhoun as a Lawyer and Statesman", part 2 "The Green Bag" (p. 271), June 1899.

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• Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you would save the people, you must often oppose them?

  John C. Calhoun

  Sacrifice, People, Understanding

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