Clay Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

— Abraham Lincoln

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close…

— Rand Paul

“Despite a legacy consisting of enough violence and death for twenty men, Jackson admitted to having two regrets on his deathbed: “I didn’t shoot…

— Daniel O'Brien

Representative William McK. Springer, remarks in the House, quoting Henry Clay: As for me, I would rather be right than be President. Reed: Well,…

— Bill Vaughan

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

— Andrew Jackson

There are some good things and some fantastic ones in Auden's early attitude; if the reader calls it a muddle I shall acquiesce, with…

— Randall Jarrell

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

“The Compromise of 1850 was authored by the legendary Whig politician Henry Clay. In addition to admitting California to the Union as a free…

— Charles River Editors

What built America's called the American system, from Hamilton to Polk to Henry Clay to Lincoln to the Roosevelts. A system of protection of…

— Steve Bannon

“The “East Asian development model” is an adaptation of the strategy advocated by German economist Friedrich List (1789–1846), which in turn drew inspiration from…

— Arthur R. Kroeber

“We sat together in three leather chairs next to a painting of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay and turned the conversation to Scouting and citizenship.”

— Alvin Townley

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms.…

— George Will