John C. Calhoun

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.