Henry Clay

The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."

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

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

I would rather be right than president.

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

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.

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

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.