John Caldwell Calhoun, né le 18 mars 1782 à Abbeville et mort le 31 mars 1850 à Washington, D.C., est un homme politique américain, qui se fit connaître durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle. C’est le premier vice-président des États-Unis à être né après l'indépendance américaine, donc citoyen américain de naissance.
Théoricien de l'idéologie sudiste, une grande partie de son œuvre vise à justifier le mode de vie des citoyens des États du Sud et à protéger leurs droits vis-à-vis du système fédéral.
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“Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.”
This has recently become attributed to Calhoun on the internet and in print, but seems to be a derivative of John Dryden's statement in Absalom and Achitophel (1681): Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
Disputed
“In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.”
Letter to Duff Green (10 February 1844), in Correspondence of John C. Calhoun (1900) edited by William Pinkney Starke, p. 569
1840s
Contexte: I cannot think in the present state of parties of entering again on the political arena. I would but waste my strength and exhaust my time, without adding to my character, or rendering service to the country, or advancing the cause for which I have so long contended. I feel no disgust nor do I feel disposed to complain of any one. On the contrary, I am content, and willing to end my public life now. In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct. My interest in the prosperity of the country, and the success of our peculiar and sublime political system when well understood, remain without abatement, and will do so till my last breath; and I shall ever stand prepared to serve the country, whenever I shall see reasonable prospect of doing so.
Speech in the U.S. Senate https://web.archive.org/web/20070123074414/http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.667/pub_detail.asp (19 February 1847)
1840s
“Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.”
Speech in the House of Representatives (12 December 1811)
1810s
Speech to the House of Representatives (5 December 1818)
1810s
In 1837 http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-held-these-words-to-be-self.html
1830s
Speech to the U.S. Senate (15 February 1833)
1830s
Reported in Walter J. Miller, "Calhoun as a Lawyer and Statesman"' part 2, The Green Bag (June 1899), p. 271. Miller states "I will cite his own words", but this quotation is reported as not verified in Calhoun's writings in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
A Disquisition on Government (1851), p. 90
1850s
Regarding slavery (1838), as quoted in Brother Against Brother: The War Begins, (The Civil War series) vol. 1, William C. Davis, New York, NY, Time-Life Books, (1983) p. 40
1830s
Speech in the U.S. Senate https://web.archive.org/web/20070123074414/http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.667/pub_detail.asp (12 August 1849)
1840s
Speech (27 May 1836); this is the source of the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder"
1830s
Letter to Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States, concerning the boundary dispute between the two countries (3 September 1844)
1840s
