Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr.was an American lawyer and planter, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives. He served three non-consecutive terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives and served as Secretary of State under President John Quincy Adams from 1825 to 1829. Clay ran for the presidency in 1824, 1832 and 1844, while also seeking the Whig Party nomination in 1840 and 1848. However, he was unsuccessful...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 April 1777
CityHanover County, VA
CountryUnited States of America
All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy; upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise; but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises.
All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.
The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?
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.
I am a little surprised by those scores,
We kind of saw it coming because it's an emotional night but at the same time we did beat them before, ... As a team we just hung in there. They scared us but we knew it would come.
But our guys never gave up. They were in it till the last putt. I couldn't be prouder of them.
The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation.
We've still got a lot of room for improvement, but it's all coming together.
Yes, sir, from Constantinople, or from the Brazil; from Turk or Christian; from black or white; from the dey of Algiers or the bey of Tunis; from the devil himself, if he wore a crown, we should receive a minister
When we get an open look, we have to shoot and shoot on goal, ... We had some open looks today and passed on them.
(Lafayette) came out and just played really hard and we didn't even come close to matching their intensity, ... Tonight they wanted it a lot more than we did.
heavy damage to its roller doors and skylights. The wharf is dry, with no flooding and the draft alongside ranged between 36 feet to 38 feet.
How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!