John C. Calhoun Quotes

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

John C. Calhoun

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • Gun
  • Going

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Think
  • House
  • Hate

• Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Growing
  • Without
  • Romance

• Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • Work
  • Peace
  • Victory

• We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Humanity

• Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Rose

• Never explain, never complain.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Never
  • Explain
  • Complain

• We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Will
  • Still
  • Recession

• Just-poached vegetables show off their natural attributes and taste fresh and light in a way you never get with roasting or frying.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Way
  • You
  • Light

• Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Great
  • Past
  • Islam

• There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Girl

• An actor matures with experiences, and the more the emotions he/she has been through, the greater the intensity of performances.

  

  Indira Varma
  • She
  • Actor
  • Emotions

• There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. Keep your hands to yourself, Bill. Hillary, mind your own business.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Society

• She had a need to feel the thunder,To chase the lightning from the sky,To watch a storm with all its wonderWritten in her lover's eyes.She had to ride the heat of passionLike a comet burning bright,Rushing headlong in the windNow where only dreams have been,Burning both ends of the night.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Passion

• The best-selling magazines to men are Playboy and Penthouse. These represent men’s primary fantasy: access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection. The best-selling magazines to women are Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, representing the female primary fantasy: better homes and gardens and a family circle.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• ...The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit...

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Remember

• Great sculptors and artists spend countless hours perfecting their talents. They don't pick up a chisel or a brush and palette, expecting immediate perfection. They understand that they will make many errors as they learn, but they start with the basics, the key fundamentals first.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Up
  • Great

• You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Success
  • You
  • Greatness

• The potential for greatness lives within us all.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Greatness

• Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth Is
  • Blossom
  • Adamant

• As long as Muslims cross this red line - if they commit crimes, if they start beating up women, if they start the genital mutilation, if they start to commit other crimes and honour killings as they unfortunately do in Western Europe many times - if they do that, I believe we should expel them, the same day if possible, from our country.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Crime
  • Killing
  • Western

• Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. This is the way which has led nations to greatness.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Greatness