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