Henry Clay Quotes

"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean."
- Henry Clay
(Related: Ocean)

"Statistics are no substitute for judgment."
- Henry Clay
(Related: Judgment, Statistics)

"Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition."
- Henry Clay
(Related: Competition, Mankind)

"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

"I had rather be right than be President."
- Henry Clay
(Related: President, Right)

"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
(Related: Government, Trust, People)

"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."
- Henry Clay
(Related: Heart, Character)

"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
- Henry Clay
(Related: People)

"I would rather be right than President."
- Henry Clay
(Related: President, Right)

"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
(Related: Constitution, Posterity, states, United)