"The colors that float from the masthead should……" — Henry Clay
"The colors that float from the masthead should be the credentials of our seamen. There is no safety to us, and the gentlemen have shown it, but in the rule that all who sail under the flag (not being enemies) are protected by the flag."
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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.
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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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