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States Quotes by John C. Calhoun
- 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…
- 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 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 defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.
- I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other…
- 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…
- We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.
- 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…
- I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur