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Henry Clay quotes: How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

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

Henry Clay quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.

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

Henry Clay quotes: 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 grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay quotes: Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

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

Henry Clay quotes: The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer.

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

Henry Clay quotes: I had rather be right than be President.

I had rather be right than be President.

Henry Clay quotes: I hope that it will yet be said, America is America's best customer.

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

Henry Clay quotes: If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.

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

Henry Clay quotes: Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

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

Henry Clay quotes: Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Henry Clay quotes: All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

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

Henry Clay quotes: An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

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

Henry Clay quotes: All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

Henry Clay quotes: I would rather be right than President.

I would rather be right than President.

Henry Clay quotes: Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

Henry Clay quotes: Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

Henry Clay quotes: I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ... .

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

Henry Clay quotes: I'd rather be right than be President

I'd rather be right than be President

Henry Clay quotes: Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

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

Henry Clay quotes: 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.

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

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