John C. Calhoun Quotes
… conquering space …
He frequently used the expression for the steam engine’s utility in transportation—steamboats and steam railroads. Distance was no longer the commercial and social barrier that it had been. “Space” was used in its 2 dimensional sense which is all that was conceived of by most people at the time.
John C. Calhoun, 1782-1850, Vice President of the United States (Democrat, SC, Quoted on The History Channel, Modern Marvels: Engines, August 12, 2013
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NASA has now sent probes to every planet and dwarf planet. It took less than a century.
John Caldwell Calhoun was an American politician and political theorist from South Carolina who held many important positions including being the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832, while adamantly defending slavery and protecting the interests of the white South when its residents were outnumbered by Northerners. He began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent of a strong national government and protective tariffs. In the late 1820s, his views changed radically, and he became a leading proponent of states' rights, limited government, nullification, and opposition to high tariffs. He saw Northern acceptance of those policies as a condition of the South remaining in the Union. His beliefs and warnings heavily influenced the South's secession from the Union in 1860–1861.
