Henry Clay

“I say, 'The bursar's office is closed.'”

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

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

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

“Statistics are no substitute for judgment.”

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

“A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with the press.”

“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages.”

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

“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.”

“I am a Kentuckian as I am an American; a Kentuckian in my feelings, my habits, my affections. But I am an American in my duties.”

“I would rather be right than be president.”

“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.”

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