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Henry Clay1777–1852

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 on power

Speech, Senate (14 March 1834)

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