A Quote by Abraham Lincoln

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln
American - President
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Abraham Lincoln

As long as I sit at Henry Clay's desk, I will remember his lifelong desire to forge agreement, but I will also keep close to my heart the principled stand of his cousin, Cassius Clay, who refused to forsake the life of any human, simply to find agreement.

Rand Paul

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

Rebecca Harding Davis

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Abraham Lincoln

This clay, so strong of heart, of sense so fine,Surely such clay is more than half divine--'Tis only fools speak evil of the clay,The very stars are made of clay like mine.

Omar Khayyam

I think it's fun to play on hard courts, you know. I think it's a surface that also can suit my game even though this year has been mainly clay, clay, clay all the year.

Casper Ruud

The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.

Friedrich August von Hayek

I have only two regrets: I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John C. Calhoun.

Andrew Jackson

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.

Andrew Jackson

The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.

Bernard Bailyn

I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.

Peter Fonda

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

Samuel Johnson

We have been playing every summer on clay since I was five years old, so it is an easy surface for us in Belgium.

David Goffin

Back when the powerful 19th-century senator Henry Clay was called 'the great compromiser,' achieving a compromise really was considered great.

Deborah Tannen

Maybe I have to work a bit harder on clay. It's a challenge and I've always liked challenges. Whether I will ever win the French and master playing on clay, who knows? But I'll give it a shot.

Lleyton Hewitt

Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'??s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

George Will

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