James Thomson Callender Quotes
John Adams is a repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor…. The Adams administration is a continual tempest of malignant passions.
James Thomson Callender, 1758-1802, Journalist, Published attacks on President John Adams and his administration, ~1800
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Characterizing Martin Luther King Jr.:
He was expelled from Parliament for such.
O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!
Otis and his paper were virulently anti-labor. See {617172} .
While President Nixon and Henry Kissinger were putting all their eggs in the Shah’s basket, Simon was one of the government who had a different perception of our key ally. See {620093} for a CIA corroborating view.
Mark Twain referring to and reflecting on his encounter with the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Aziz.
He said this as he threw them out of his White House office.
Kerry had just finished a formal presentation, and thought that the microphones he was wearing had all been removed. Some opponents accuse him of knowing that he was overheard by live mikes.
Referring to the autocratic President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Even leading Soviet officials were critical of the Stalin era and Stalin’s brutal, dictatorial methods.
James Thomson Callender was a political pamphleteer and journalist whose writing was controversial in his native Scotland and later, also in the United States. His contemporary reputation was as a "scandalmonger", due to the content of some of his reporting, which overshadowed the political content — some modern scholars note Callender's writings in favor of democracy. In the United States, he was a central figure in the press wars between the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties. In the late 1790s, Thomas Jefferson sought him out to attack President John Adams, which Callender did. After Jefferson won the presidency, Callender expected employment as a postmaster, which was denied by Jefferson. Callender then published existing rumors claiming President Jefferson had children with slave Sally Hemings.
