John C. Calhoun

I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive. It is already enormously great, as every man of every party must acknowledge, if he would candidly express his sentiments.

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These are some quotes by American author John C. Calhoun Statesman, who lived between March 18, 1782 and March 31, 1850.

Quotes by John C. Calhoun

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

John C. Calhoun

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

John C. Calhoun

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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.

John C. Calhoun

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