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Top 30 Henry Clay Quotes (2025 Update)

Henry Clay Quote: “The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.”

1. “The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Statistics are no substitute for judgment.”

2. “Statistics are no substitute for judgment.”

Henry Clay Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

Henry Clay Quote: “The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

4. “The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”

Henry Clay Quote: “I’d rather be right than President.”

5. “I’d rather be right than President.”

Henry Clay Quote: “All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.”

6. “All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.”

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

Henry Clay Quote: “All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.”

8. “All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”

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

Henry Clay Quote: “Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.”

10. “Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.”

11. “Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.”

Henry Clay Quote: “I hope that it will yet be said, America is America’s best customer.”

12. “I hope that it will yet be said, America is America’s best customer.”

Henry Clay Quote: “The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.”

13. “The measure of the wealth of a nation is indicated by the measure of its protection of its industry; the measure of the poverty of a nation is marked by the degree in which it neglects and abandons the care of its own industry, leaving it exposed to the action of foreign powers.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.”

14. “Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.”

Henry Clay Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

Henry Clay Quote: “I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.”

16. “I cannot believe that the killing of 2,000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.”

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

Henry Clay Quote: “Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.”

18. “Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation.”

Henry Clay Quote: “The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.”

19. “The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.”

Henry Clay Quote: “If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.”

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

Henry Clay Quote: “By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.”

21. “By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.”

Henry Clay Quote: “I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.”

22. “I always have had, and always shall have, a profound regard for Christianity, the religion of my fathers, and for its rights, its usages and observances.”

Henry Clay Quote: “An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.”

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

Henry Clay Quote: “How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!”

24. “How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!”

Henry Clay Quote: “A nation’s character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation’s inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.”

25. “A nation’s character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation’s inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.”

Henry Clay Quote: “Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.”

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

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Henry Clay Quote: “How is it with the President? Is he powerless? He is felt from one extremity to the other of this vast Republic. By means of principles which he has introduced, and innovations which he has made in our institutions, alas! but too much countenanced by Congress and a confiding people, he exercises, uncontrolled, the power of the State. In.”

27. “How is it with the President? Is he powerless? He is felt from one extremity to the other of this vast Republic. By means of principles which he has introduced, and innovations which he has made in our institutions, alas! but too much countenanced by Congress and a confiding people, he exercises, uncontrolled, the power of the State. In.”

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

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

Henry Clay Quote: “We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public’s advancement.”

29. “We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public’s advancement.”

Henry Clay Quote: “A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.”

30. “A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.”

Henry Clay Quote: “In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.”

31. “In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.”

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