When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Union as… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. But the… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking offence; and if we had… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The country is filled with energetic and enterprising men, rendered desperate by being reduced from affluence to poverty through the vicissitudes of… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Where wages command labor, as in the non-slaveholding States, there necessarily takes place between labor and capital a conflict, which leads, in… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Of the two, I considered it more important to avoid a war with England about Oregon than a war with Mexico, important as I… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable fact in the political history of man that there is scarcely an instance of a free constitutional government which has… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more difficult than to equalize the action of the government in reference to the various and diversified interests of the community; and… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who believe that we are bound to vote supplies to cover a deficiency in the treasury whenever called… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to establish permanent peace with the rest of the world,… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
