There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.
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
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
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. - Henry Clay
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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
There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one peris…
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
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…
Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must. - Henry Clay
Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must.
The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer. - Henry Clay
The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. - Henry Clay
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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
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.
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 Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, per…
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