John C. Calhoun Quotes

Be assured that, as certain as Congress transcends its assigned limits and usurps powers never conferred, or stretches those conferred beyond the proper limits, so surely will the fruits of its usurpation pass into the hands of the Executive. In seeking to become master, it but makes a master in the person of the President.

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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Poetry was my dirty little secret when I was a fiction writer at Iowa, and then fiction became my dirty little secret when I started writing more poetry and working for 'Rookie'.

Jenny Zhang

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It's a liminal thing, humming, And I'm always interested in liminal things.

Max Richter

AlwaysThingsInterestedThing

Women should look at themselves and decide for themselves what color or length they should wear.

Sonia Rykiel

WomenColorLookDecideWearShould

Since its inception, HCL's core focus area has been technology and product development, and hence, we continued to remain in the high end of technology throughout the '90s.

Shiv Nadar

TechnologyFocusEndDevelopment

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

Robert Winston

TodayChildrenThinkEnvironmentOut

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

Louis Leakey

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Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say 'I don't know' about anything.

Johnny Miller

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I actually have the Arcade PC at home, and it has 5,500 games on it. Everything from the old school, Galaga, Tron, Missile Command, anything you can think of, they're all on there. I love the old school games.

Diego Corrales

LoveHomeSchoolThinkYouGames

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

Dennis Prager

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I wasn't the cool kid in school, but I wasn't the lame one. I knew I wasn't cool, so I called myself lame, and that's what made me cool in front of the cool kids.

Astro

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He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Paul Tillich

FailureRisksNeverBeingWholeWho

In preindustrial times, the idea of creating something was more related to your personality. Personality was something that you constructed; it's something you had to actively develop and work on. Now personality is something that you have.

Tino Sehgal

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