John C. Calhoun Quotes

I have only 2 regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

My only two regrets in public life is that I did not hang John C. Calhoun and shoot Henry Clay.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

South Carolina is one of the most racist states in America. John C. Calhoun is the name of a building at our school and he was a slave owner. Clemson, the name Clemson itself, was like a guy who was a slave owner. South Carolina, their whole history is messed up.

Haystacks Calhoun has never been lifted because he has never been in the ring with Bruno Sammartino.

I consider ... the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.

I had a lot of my success due to appearing at the Garden. I wrestled there over 200 times, it's where I won the title, and it's where I picked up 630-plus pounds of Haystacks Calhoun.

Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.