Henry Clay

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

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

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.

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.

I would rather be right than President.

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.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

I had rather be right than be President.