Henry Clay quotes Born: 04/13/1777 Country: usa

• Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. (Henry Clay) [men/character]
• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. (Henry Clay) [character/strike]
• Statistics are no substitute for judgment. (Henry Clay) [statistics]
• An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Henry Clay)
• 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)
• 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)
• I would rather be right than President. (Henry Clay)
• If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. (Henry Clay)
• Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. (Henry Clay)
• 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)

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