“Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.”
— Speech in the House of Representatives (12 December 1811)
“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.”
— Speech to the U.S. Senate (15 February 1833)
“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.”
— Speech (27 May 1836); this is the source of the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder"
“I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.”
— In 1837
“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”
— Speech in the Senate (January 1848)
“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.”
— A Disquisition on Government (1851), p. 90

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John C. Calhoun is a marble sculpture depicting the American statesman of the same name by Frederick Ruckstull, installed in the United States Capitol's crypt, in Washington, D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. The statue was gifted by the U.S. state of South Carolina in 1910. The statue is one of three that Ruckstull has had placed in the Collection. See also 1910 in art

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