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“Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.” quote by Henry Clay — Download Open image

“Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.”

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I had rather be right than be President.

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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

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