"The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals."

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Source : JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.63

John C. Calhoun

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“This Being out of God cannot, by any means, be a limited, completed, and inert Being, since God himself is not such a dead Being, but, on the contrary, is Life; but it can only be a Power, since only a Power is the true formal picture or Schema of Life. And indeed it can only be the Power of realising that which is contained in itself a Schema.”
“The only exercise I get is walking to the betting office.”
“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.”
“until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.”
“It is too late, now I wish I could live.”
“I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.”
“I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.”
“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.”

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