The quotations of

Henry Clay

American politician from Kentucky

1777–1852

5 quotes, most often on America.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity⁠—unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Speech, Senate (29 January 1850)
- America
- Laws
An oppressed people are authorized, whenever they can, to rise and break their fetters.
Speech on the Emancipation of South America, House of Representatives (24 March 1818)
- Freedom
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.
Speech at the public dinner at Fowler’s Garden, Lexington, Kentucky, May 16, 1829, printed in Niles’ Weekly Register, Vol. 36 (1829), at p. 399
- Government
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.
Speech, Senate (14 March 1834)
- Power
I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
Speech in the US Senate (14 February 1850), replying to Senator Henry S. Foote
- America
- Patriotism

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