Quotes by Henry Clay

• Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
• If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.
• Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
• Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
• I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
• I had rather be right than be President.
• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
• An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
• I would rather be right than President.
• The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.