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

Quote by Henry Clay

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

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

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

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

Statistics are no substitute for judgment

Statistics are no substitute for judgment

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

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

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

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

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

I would rather be right than President.

I would rather be right than President.

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

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

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

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

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then...

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then...

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no...

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no...

I had rather be right than be President.

I had rather be right than be President.

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

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

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then...

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then...

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they...

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they...

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will...

If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will...

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely...

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely...

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from...

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from...

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers...

There is truth in the reply of a great lawyer when asked how the lawyers...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...

[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal...