Clay Quote by Bill Vaughan

“Sir, I would rather be right than to be President.”

— Henry Clay

I'd rather be right than President.

— Henry Clay

I had rather be right than be President.

— Henry Clay

“What will always be better than a man, is a Gentleman.”

— Pontius Joseph

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

— Finley Peter Dunne

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam…

— John Bright

Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

— Christopher Dodd

“John Stuart Mill declared that tyranny makes men cynical. He did not know that a Republic makes them silent.”

— Anonymous

“...anyone wishing to hold office will be disqualified from being a candidate based on his desire to hold office.”

— Edward M. Wolfe

“Can any man doubt whether it is better to be a great statesman or a common thief?”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton