John C. Calhoun Quotes

The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: statesman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850

Topics

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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

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When you love something, it never goes away.

Jennifer Lynch

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Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

John McCain

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Everybody can get it. I'm here; I want to fight everyone.

Max Holloway

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If I hold up a red square for 30 seconds and take it away, you will see a perfect green square. It's how the eye works. So if you want to paint a really good red painting, you have to strategically place in some green, so the eye is brought back.

Robert Irwin

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I admire people who are completely at ease with themselves. But I don't have that feeling.

Matt Lauer

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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

John Philip Sousa

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What is necessary is possible, what we want is expensive. What is unnecessary is unlikely.

Robert Fripp

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Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.

Lucas Till

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For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Lucy Powell

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Editing is more by-the-hip. You look at a text and ask yourself how it can be improved.

Jonathan Galassi

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There is something revolting about the way girls' minds often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

Dodie Smith

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