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Government Quotes by John C. Calhoun
- The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently…
- 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…
- The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the compact, acting as…
- The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the…
- [The taxing power of the state] divides the community into two great classes: one consisting of those who, in reality, pay the taxes and, of…
- The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals.
- Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting…
- Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.
- Property is in its nature timid and seeks protection, and nothing is more gratifying to government than to become a protector.
- 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?…
- 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…
- A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass,…
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- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- I am the constitutionally and legitimately elected sheriff, and I absolutely refuse to surrender my responsibility to the federal government. — Joe Arpaio
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it… — David Attenborough
- In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? — Saint Augustine
- Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one. — Bill Ayers
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida