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John C. Calhoun
 
Name:   John C. Calhoun
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Mar 18, 1782
 
Date of Death:   Mar 31,  1850
 
Profession:   Statesman
 
 
 
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
 
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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
 
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In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
 
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
 
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The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
 
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Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
 
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Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
 
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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
 
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