The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Henry Clay

4 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

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.— filed under Government
Whig Convention. Oct. 1, 1855. 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.— filed under Patriotism
The gentleman [Josiah Quincy] cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."— filed under Peace
Whig Committee. 1856. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.— filed under Rights
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