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John Calhoun cytaty

„Stany południowe są w istocie zbiorem gmin, a nie indywidualnych jednostek. Każda plantacja jest małą społecznością, na czele której stoi jej właściciel skupiający w swym ręku połączone interesy kapitału i pracy i będący ich rzecznikiem. Połączenie tych małych społeczności, tworzy cały stan, w którym ich praca, działalność i kapitał są na równi reprezentowane i doskonale zestrojone. Stąd harmonia, jedność i trwałość tego regionu, rzadko zakłócana, a jeśli już, to tylko na skutek ingerencji rządu. Dobrodziejstwa tego stanu rzeczy wykraczają poza granice Południa. Dzięki nim region ten gwarantuje równowagę systemu, jest wielką zachowawczą siłą, która powstrzymuje od konfliktów inne regiony, mniej szczęśliwie urządzone.”

John Calhoun

Źródło: Krzysztof Michałek, Dyplomaci i okręty. Z dziejów polityki zagranicznej Skonfederowanych Stanów Ameryki, 1861–1865, Warszawa 1987, s. 31.

John Calhoun: Cytaty po angielsku

“Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.”

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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.
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“In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.”

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Letter to Duff Green (10 February 1844), in Correspondence of John C. Calhoun (1900) edited by William Pinkney Starke, p. 569
1840s
Kontekst: 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.

“I am a Southern man and a slaveholder. A kind and merciful one, I trust, and none the worse for being a slaveholder. I say, for one, I would rather meet any extremity upon earth than give up one inch of our equality, one inch of what belongs to us as members of this republic! What! Acknowledged inferiority! The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledged inferiority!”

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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) <br class="br">1840s

“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”

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Speech in the Senate (January 1848)
1840s

“Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.”

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Speech in the House of Representatives (12 December 1811)
1810s

“The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.”

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Speech (13 February 1835)
1830s

“The neighboring tribes are becoming daily less warlike, and more helpless and dependent on us … [T]hey have, in a great measure, ceased to be an object of terror, and have become that of commiseration.”

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Speech to the House of Representatives (5 December 1818)
1810s

“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.”

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In 1837 http://stoprepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/06/democrats-held-these-words-to-be-self.html <br class="br">1830s

“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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Speech to the U.S. Senate (15 February 1833)
1830s

“I never know what South Carolina thinks of a measure. I never consult her. I act to the best of my judgment, and according to my conscience. If she approves, well and good. If she does not, or wishes any one to take my place, I am ready to vacate. We are even.”

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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).

“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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A Disquisition on Government (1851), p. 90
1850s

“Many in the South once believed that slavery was a moral and political evil. That folly and delusion are gone. We see it now in its true light, and regard it as the most safe and stable basis for free institutions in the world.”

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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

“With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and the poor, but white and black, and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals, if honest and industrious, and hence have a position and pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them.”

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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) <br class="br">1840s

“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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Speech (27 May 1836); this is the source of the phrase, "Cohesive power of public plunder"
1830s

“Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territory — its great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippi — as well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it.”

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Letter to Richard Pakenham, British minister to the United States, concerning the boundary dispute between the two countries (3 September 1844)
1840s