In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry Clay
(1777 - 1852)
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
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."
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 nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.
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.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
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.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.