John C. Calhoun Quotes
If we do not defend ourselves none will defend us; if we yield we will be more and more pressed as we recede; and if we submit we will be trampled under foot. I hold concession or compromise to be fatal. If we concede an inch, concession would follow compromise, until our ranks would be so broken that effectual resistance would be impossible.
Calhoun, John C. "Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions." 6 Feb. 1837. The Works of John C. Calhoun, edited by Richard K. Crallé, vol. 2, D. Appleton and Company, 1853, p. 629.
Most of the Jews in the Vilnius ghetto were killed, many fighting the Germans. Kovner ironically survived.
Attila the Hun. If countries formed alliances against him, he took it as a sign of weakness and allies were cowards because they were afraid to fight alone.
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.
