Henry Clay Quotations

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Impart additional strength to our happy Union.?Diversified as are the interests of its various parts, how admirably do they harmonize and blend together!?We have only to make a proper use of the bounties spread before us, to render us prosperous and powerful.

Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive.

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

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

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

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

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.