“Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.” — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and… — Henry Clay Copy Share
Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other. — Henry Clay Copy Share
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share
In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year,… — Henry Clay Copy Share
A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse… — Henry Clay Copy Share
Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never… — Henry Clay Copy Share
I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind …. — Henry Clay Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong. — Henry Clay Copy Share
The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty… — Henry Clay Copy Share
We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the… — Henry Clay Copy Share
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of… — Henry Clay Copy Share
I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long,… — Henry Clay Copy Share
