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John C. Calhoun was a longtime Pittsburgh Police leader, who served as Pittsburgh Police Chief from 1921 until 1923.
Not who you're looking for? Others named John C. Calhoun: vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832 (1782– · statue by Frederick Ruckstull
“Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I hold that the present state of civilization, where two races of different origin, and distinguished by color, and other physical differences, as well as intellectual, are brought together, the relation now existing in the slaveholding states between the two, is, instead of an evil, a good. A positive good.”
“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”
“The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
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