Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Henry Clay Quotes Click here for Henry Clay books Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union "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...The Union, sir, is my country." "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." "The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity." "If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean." "Statistics are no substitute for judgment." "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." "An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters."
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"I would rather be right than be President."
