Henry Clay

Quote: Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Statistics are no substitute for judgment. [Henry Clay]

Quote: An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. [Henry Clay]

Quote: I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. [Henry Clay]

Quote: I would rather be right than President. [Henry Clay]

Quote: If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
[Henry Clay]

Quote: The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Statistics are no substitute for judgment [Henry Clay]

Quote: I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I
know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any
allegiance.
[Henry Clay]

Quote: There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with
what is right in America.
[Henry Clay]

Quote: The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own
sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if
we can, forcibly if we must."
[Henry Clay]

Quote: Sir, I would rather be right than be President. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are
trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the
benefit of the people.
[Henry Clay]

Quote: Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay (1777-1852). [Henry Clay]

Quote: An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. [Henry Clay]

Quote: I had rather be right than be President. [Henry Clay]

Quote: The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. [Henry Clay]

Quote: Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. [Henry Clay]

Quote: I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance. [Henry Clay]

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