5 Henry Clay Quotes on Politics

Henry Clay quotes on politics

5. All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

6. 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.

7. 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.

9. My friends are not worth the powder and shot it would take to kill them!... If there were two Henry Clays, one of them would make the other President of the United States!... It is a diabolical intrigue, I know now, which has betrayed me. I am the most unfortunate man in the history of parties: always run by my friends when sure to be defeated, and now betrayed for a nomination when I, or any one, would be sure of an election.

14. You're unhappy. I'm unhappy too. Have you heard of Henry Clay? He was the Great Compromiser. A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied, and I think that's what we have here.