Despotic Power Quotes by John C. Calhoun

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• The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and…
• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which…
• The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the…
• It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
• A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various powerful interests, combined in…
• The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the…
• The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and…
• [The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the…
• Democracy, as I understand it, requires me to sacrifice myself for the masses, not to them. Who knows not that if you…
• Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
• The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery…
• A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

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