Top 35 Henry Clay Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. 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.

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#3. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

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#4. Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

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#5. Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

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#6. I would rather be right than President.

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#7. All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

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#8. 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.

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#9. An oppressed people are authorized whenever
they can to rise and break their fetters.

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#10. All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

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#11. If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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#12. How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

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#13. 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.

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#14. Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

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#15. 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.

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#16. The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.

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#17. 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 ...

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#18. Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.

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#19. I'd rather be right than be President

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#20. 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.

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#21. 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.

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#22. 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.

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#23. 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.

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#24. Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

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#25. Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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#30. I had rather be right than be President.

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#31. I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.

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#32. I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ... .

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#33. Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

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#34. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

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#35. Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

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