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

Quote by Henry Clay

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I would rather be right than President.

I would rather be right than President.

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...

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...

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...

Statistics are no substitute for judgment

Statistics are no substitute for judgment

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...

I had rather be right than be President.

I had rather be right than be President.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

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

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

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...

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 government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights...

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights...

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in...

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in...

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and...

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and...

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to...

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to...