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
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
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment - Henry Clay Quotes

Statistics are no substitute for judgment

Henry Clay

 Judgment
Let him who elevates himself above humanity . . . say, if he pleases,

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

 Compromise
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 Quotes

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

 
The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation. - Henry Clay Quotes

The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation.

Henry Clay

 Conviction
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 Quotes

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

 Controversy
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. - Henry Clay Quotes

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

Henry Clay

 American Statesman
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

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

 Allegiance American Statesman
(Lafayette) came out and just played really hard and we didn't even come close to matching their intensity, ... Tonight they wanted it a lot more than we did. - Henry Clay Quotes

(Lafayette) came out and just played really hard and we didn't even come close to matching their intensity, ... Tonight they wanted it a lot more than we did.

Henry Clay

 
I would rather be right than President - Henry Clay Quotes

I would rather be right than President

Henry Clay

 
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart - Henry Clay Quotes

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

Henry Clay

 Character
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