Quotes by Henry Clay - Page 1

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 / Former United States Representative
Trust
Government
Officers
People
Political
Trust Government People
Benefit
Both
Created
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I'd rather be right than President.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Inspirational
Ironic
President
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I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
President
Rather
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I had rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Politics
Political
President
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Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Funny
Humorous
Judgment
Statistics
Teaching
Substitute
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All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Legislation
Mutual
Principles
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The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Inspirational
Summer
Wrestling
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If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Ocean
Politics
Abandon
Collision
Political
Wish
Avoid
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How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Fortune
Partiality
Unjust
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Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Politics
Party
Political
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Break
Oppressed
People
Rebellion
Revolution
Rise
Authorized
Whenever
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I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Mankind
Mass
My Sympathy
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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Affair
Competition
Greater
Mankind
Affairs
Human Powers
None
Operating
Powers
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Business
Men
Character
Honorable
Belong
Highly
Prized
Properties
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Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Country
Justice
Strong
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Appreciation
Thanksgiving
Thankful
Character
Courtesy
Grateful
Gratitude
Heart
Appreciating
Deepest
Small
Strike
Trivial
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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 / Former United States Representative
Patriotism
Allegiance
East
Heard
Said
West
Any
Owe
North
Something
Which
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All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Government
Atheism
Liberty
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The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Forgotten
Gentleman
House
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A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Men
Doubt
Fool
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I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Father
Profound
Rights
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I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Believe
Complicated
New Orleans
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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 / Former United States Representative
America
Constitution
Constitution Of The United States
Democracy
Endless
Made
Perpetual
Posterity
States
Undefined
United
United States
Then
Existed
Generation
Merely
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Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases, "I will never compromise"; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromise.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Common
Compromise
Humanity
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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Character
Deeds
People
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There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Fear
Men
Passion
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Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Wise
Men
Weight
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The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Art
Country
Hatred
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I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Expression
Long
Passion
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Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Land
Rights
Sea
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The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Color
Gentleman
Safety
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In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
War
Views
Years
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We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Able
President
Reflection
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Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Powerful
Together
Use
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By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Affair
Competition
Increase
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The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Politics
Leaving
Political
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The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Government
Citizens
Limits
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All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Government
Humanity
Weakness
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The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Party
Passion
Reflection
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In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.
Henry Clay / Former United States Representative
Common
Constitution
Names
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