Quotes
Quotes - Clay
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."
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.
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.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart. -Henry Clay (1777-1852).
I had rather be right than be President.
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.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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."
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.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
