"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you……" — Henry Clay
"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean."
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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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A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe…
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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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