Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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In all cases where incidental powers are acted upon, the principal and incidental ought to be congenial with each other, and partake of a common nature. The incidental power ought to be strictly subordinate and limited to the end proposed to be obtained by the specified power. In other words, under the name of accomplishing one object which is specified, the power implied ought not to be made to embrace other objects, which are not specified in the constitution.

Henry Clay's Popular Quotes

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 li…

- Henry Clay

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one peris…

- Henry Clay

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

- Henry Clay

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 Pre…

- Henry Clay

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

Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.

- Henry Clay

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, per…

- Henry Clay

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

- Henry Clay

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

- Henry Clay