It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
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It's easier to gain freedom than to keep it. Once you have freedom, you have to work hard to protect it and make sure it doesn't slip away. Keeping your freedom can be more challenging than getting it in the first place.
About John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun was a prominent American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States. He started as a nationalist and modernizer, but later became a leading proponent of states’ rights, limited government, and the defense of slavery. Calhoun’s beliefs heavily influenced the South’s secession from the Union in 1860 and 1861.
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It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
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Beware the wrath of a patient adversary.
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks.
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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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Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
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In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
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