Top 73 Quotes About Henry Clay
#1. Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well, the gentleman will never be either.
Bill Vaughan
#4. After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
Andrew Jackson
#5. It was clear to many American working men and women that the Homestead Steel Strike of the early 1890s, when Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick broke the backs of the steel workers, that that was a watershed.
David Levering Lewis
#6. I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), the industrialist and prodigious art collector. It is said that he liked to wander through his gallery at night in quiet contemplation.
Anonymous
#8. NO POLITICIAN COULD devote as many evenings to poker and whiskey as had Henry Clay and expect a decorous presidential campaign.
Amy S. Greenberg
#9. As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.
Rand Paul
#10. I have only two regrets:
I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.
Andrew Jackson
#11. Statistics are no substitue for judgement.
Henry Clay
#12. 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.
Henry Clay
#13. He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#14. 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
#15. It takes practice to use one's eyes, even when God has opened them. And there are some believers who never get beyond confounding a doctrinal statement of a truth with a living exemplification of that truth.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#16. 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
#17. No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#18. 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
#19. Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#21. Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#22. Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. 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
#24. Just as sure as the days go by, Jesus will come to us, looking for fruit; and He will come in personal hunger, needing and longing for the fruit which we might have ready for Him.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#25. I'd rather be right than be President
Henry Clay
#26. Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.
Henry Clay
#27. Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.
Henry Clay
#28. 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
#29. Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#33. 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
#34. Hardly anything can be more important in the mental training of a child than the bringing him to do it in its proper time, whether he enjoys it or not. The measure of a child's ability to do this becomes, in the long run, the measure of his practical efficiency in whatever sphere of life he labors.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#35. I had rather be right than be President.
Henry Clay
#36. An over-readiness to criticise or to depreciate a minister of Christ is proof of a lack of devotion to Christ.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#37. I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.
Henry Clay
#38. I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ... .
Henry Clay
#39. Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
Henry Clay
#40. Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
#41. In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#45. A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#46. 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
#47. Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#48. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay
#49. Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.
Henry Clay
#50. Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay
#51. Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#52. I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
#53. It is not an easy thing for a parent of today to bear always in mind that every child of his is as truly an individual as he was when he was a child.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#54. One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
Henry James
#55. Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.
Henry Moore
#56. All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
Henry Clay
#57. If a man is unable to find the way to Jesus, he ought to be led. It is good work this bringing the blind to Him who alone can give them sight.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#58. There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#59. It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.
Henry Clay Payne
#60. An oppressed people are authorized whenever
they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay
#61. All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.
Henry Clay
#62. If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
Henry Clay
#63. How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!
Henry Clay
#64. When Henry Ford founded the company bearing his name in 1903, he saw the car as a means of providing freedom of mobility to people around the world.
William Clay Ford Jr.
#65. 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
#66. Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes,
The art of syren choirs;
Hush the seductive voice that floats
Across the trembling wires.
Music's ethereal power was given
Not to dissolve our clay,
But draw Promethean beams from heaven
To purge the dross away.
John Henry Newman
#67. The moment you accept God's ordering, that moment your work ceases to be a task, and becomes your calling; you pass from bondage to freedom, from the shadow-land of life into life itself.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#68. Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
Henry Clay
#69. In all holiest and most unselfish love, friendship is the purest element of the affection. No love in any relation of life can be at its best if the element of friendship be lacking. And no love can transcend, in its possibilities of noble and ennobling exaltation, a love that is pure friendship.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#70. Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#71. 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
#72. The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.
Henry Clay
#73. 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
