Henry Clay Quotes

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

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

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 had rather be right than be President.

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

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