Quote by Henry Clay
Id rather be right than President. - Henry Clay

Id rather be right than President. – Henry Clay

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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. – Henry Clay

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But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. – Bob Dylan

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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Anyone that wants the presidency so much that hell spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. – David Broder

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Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns. – Walter Bagehot

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