Aggression Quote by John C. Calhoun

I see a future where states compete with one another to see which can be the most efficient, and where businesses seek out efficient…

— Bernie Sanders

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

— Robert M. T. Hunter

Our country asserts for itself the glory of being the freest upon the surface of the globe... but one dark spot still dimmed its…

— James Forten

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has…

— James Henry Hammond

The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no…

— John Quincy Adams

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

— Thomas Jefferson

“An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities,…

— Walter Lippmann

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

— Lord Acton

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour,…

— John Milton

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole…

— Daniel Webster

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the…

— Daniel Webster