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There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

- John C. Calhoun
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The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.

So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.

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.

Restore, without delay, the equilibrium between revenue and expenditures, which has done so much to destroy our credit and derange the whole fabric of government. If that should not be done, the government and country will be involved, ere long, in overwhelming difficulties.

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

There is not an example on record of any free state holding a province of the same extent and population without disastrous consequences. The nations conquered and held as a province have, in time, retaliated by destroying the liberty of their conquerors through the corrupting effect of extended patronage and irresponsible power.

It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by force, if necessary. It is a sad delusion.

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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There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

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There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.

There is a tendency in all parties, when they have been for a long time in possession of power, to augment it.