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If we're ready to make a decision, I'm sure someone will make a motion to put it on the agenda.


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JOHN C. CALHOUN A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and va...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, consti...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I am impressed with the belief that our naval force ought not to cost more in proportion than the Br...
JOHN C. CALHOUN In the unfixables of our lives we are invited to keep company with Jesus and take a risk that God's ...
ADELE AHLBERG CALHOUN Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
JOHN C. CALHOUN It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confid...
JOHN C. CALHOUN It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spr...
JOHN C. CALHOUN True consistency, that of the prudent and the wise, is to act in conformity with circumstances and n...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Every increase of protective duties is necessarily followed, in the present condition of our country...
JOHN C. CALHOUN He is blind indeed who does not see, in the signs of the times, a strong tendency to plunge the Unio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The strong should always permit the weak and aggrieved to talk, to bluster, and scold without taking...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Once established with Great Britain, it would not be difficult, with moderation and prudence, to est...
JOHN C. CALHOUN I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never confe...
JOHN C. CALHOUN When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant a...
JOHN C. CALHOUN With such irresistible evidence before us of the great and rapid progress of abolitionism without th...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.
JOHN C. CALHOUN In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the...
JOHN C. CALHOUN A compromise is but an act of Congress. It may be overruled at any time. It gives us no security. Bu...
JOHN C. CALHOUN So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in actio...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole...
JOHN C. CALHOUN We are as good judges of our interest and safety, and the means of preserving them, as the non-slave...
JOHN C. CALHOUN Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.
JAMES ST. JAMES I came to NYU to study experimental theater. Shortly thereafter, I was featured in a 'Newsweek&#...
JAMES ST. JAMES