"There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled……" — Henry Clay
"There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day."
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Henry Clay
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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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More Caesar Quotes
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It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to…
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Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
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From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of…
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In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
— Cleopatra
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that…
— Billy Graham
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If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago…
— Unknown Author
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He was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar without the legions of Caesar:…
— Unknown Author
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We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's…
— Jose Mujica
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy…
— Camille Paglia
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[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is…
— William Penn
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Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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