"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you……" — Henry Clay

"If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean."

26 Quotes by Henry Clay

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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited,…
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are…
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West,…
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its…
The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
I'd rather be right than President.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
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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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for… — Teresa of Avila
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation. — Abu Bakr
When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon… — Javier Bardem
If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of… — Gary Bauer
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
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the… — Simone de Beauvoir
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system. — George W. Bush
I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign… — David Byrne
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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