How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those … - John C. Calhoun

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I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office.

John C. Calhoun

How can those who are invested with the power of government be prevented from the abuse of those powers as the means of aggrandizing themselves?. . . Without a strong constitution to counteract the strong tendency of government to disorder and abuse there can be little progress or improvement.

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I never use the word nation in speaking of the United States. I always use the word Union or Confederacy. We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.

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There never has yet existed a wealthy and civilized society in which one portion of the community did not, in point of fact, live on the labor of the other.

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It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition. . . Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.

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