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• Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustee
  and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people....
• 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.
  -- Henry Clay (1777-1852) -- Speech, 1813...
• Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
  -- Henry Clay (1777-1852) -- Speech, 1850 (referring to the Compromise Measures)...
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• Revolutions are not made; they come. -- Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) -- Speech, Jan. 28, 1852
• Statistics are no substitute for judgement. -- Henry Clay
• If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,--never!
  ever! never! -- William Pitt, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778) -- Speech, Nov. 18, 1777...
• 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....