"A nation's character is the sum of its……" — Henry Clay
"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 and animate our own people."
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26 Quotes by Henry Clay
Henry Clay has 26 quotes on this site.
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited,…
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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are…
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I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West,…
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Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
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The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its…
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The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
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I'd rather be right than President.
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An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
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There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their…
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure…
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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil…
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In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.
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I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of…
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At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in…
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It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life,…
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The general struggle for existence of animate beings is not a struggle for raw materials, these for organisms are air…
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We are more connected than ever before, more able to spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears. As…
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The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed…
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