John C. Calhoun Quotes

It is but too common, of late, to condemn the acts of our predecessors and to pronounce them unjust, unwise, or unpatriotic from not adverting to the circumstances under which they acted. Thus, to judge is to do great injustice to the wise and patriotic men who preceded us.

John C. Calhoun

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatMenWiseJudgeLateInjustice

I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons.

Jennifer Carpenter

BelieveDemonsI BelieveI Believe In

As the name of the agency suggests, 'Department of Defense,' the defense refers to the United States of America - not the defense of South Korea, not the defense of Ukraine, not the defense of Syria or Germany.

Ann Coulter

NameAmericaUnitedDefenseAgency

To me, the excitement is in ordering a fine shotgun, going through the process that everybody who has bought one has gone through for 100 years. You order it, you make a significant down payment, and then you wait three or four years for the gun to be custom-made for you.

Tom Selleck

MeWaitGunProcessYouDown

Enjoying myself is something very important for me because that is why I play when all is said and done. And it also allows me to have an engine.

Riyad Mahrez

MyselfMePlaySaidDoneImportant

I get lobbied by governments, schools, nurses, charities. It's not all a bad thing.

Mike Quigley

BadGetNursesThingGovernments

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Mohnish Pabrai

PeopleFreeThinkRealityYouWant

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Lou Holtz

MistakesCoachingYouNothingMore

People are just fascinated by assassinations.

Louis Stokes

PeopleJustFascinated

I missed a lot of family weddings and funerals because we were out on the road and had these big gigs, and you can't pull out of these gigs at the last minute because too many people are counting on it. It got to the point where I was consumed with that.

Dolores O'Riordan

FamilyPeopleRoadYouMissedOut

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Dennis Potter

BestWritingCriticismKindLiteracy

A political event was that I met Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary. He is a young, intelligent guy, very sure of himself and extraordinarily audacious; I think we hit it off well.

Che Guevara

ThinkPoliticalYoungIntelligent

It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you.

Chuck Yeager

YouWouldSystems

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