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

Id rather be right than President. – Henry Clay

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Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. – Henry Clay

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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. – Jimmy Breslin

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Jerry Ford is so dumb he cant fart and chew gum at the same time. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. – John Adams

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