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.

I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.