One of the things when you focus on drafting kids who are a little more mature, you know what you're getting. Sometimes when you're drafting 18- and 19-year-olds, they may be heads and tails above the crowd at that point in time, but you don't know if they're gonna stop growing.


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I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a coun...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
How can this full, perfect, just and supreme voice of the people, embodied in the Constitution, be b...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
To make a division of power effectual, a veto in one form or another is indispensable. The right of ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. The...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
A difference must be made between a decision against the constitutionality of a law of Congress and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I will not attempt to show that it would be a great evil to increase the patronage of the Executive....
JOHN C. CALHOUN
What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect i...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I saw that the incorporation of Texas into this Union would be indispensable both to her safety and ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and popula...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
The framers of our constitution had the sagacity to vest in Congress all implied powers: that is, po...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indee...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Measures of policy are necessarily controlled by circumstances; and, consequently, what may be wise ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our cap...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
It is admitted on all sides that we must equalize the revenue and expenditures. The scheme of borrow...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary;...
JOHN C. CALHOUN
I am in favor of high wages and agree that the higher the wages, the stronger the evidence of prospe...
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
It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ...
JEFF GREENFIELD
I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
JEFF SESSIONS