Quotes by : Henry Clay

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees....

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

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she....

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Sir I would rather be right than be President.

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

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