Henry Clay Quotes

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Not parties, but principles.

Fighting for what is right is not always popular but is always necessary.

Leadership is not about popularity, it is about doing what is right.

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

The true measure of a man is what he would do if he knew he would never be caught.

I thank God that I left office the same way I came in: with integrity.

If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

Stand up for what you know is right.

How one stands up to any sort of allegation in the heat of political battle reveals the strength and nature of your character. It's one of the reasons we have campaigns.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I would rather be respected than elected.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

There are things you stand up for because it's right.

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

My beliefs will run through everything I do. My beliefs, my values are my anchor and when people try to drag me, as I know they will, it is to that sense of right and wrong, that sense of who I am and what I believe, to which I will always hold.

I have never and never will do anything for the sake of popularity; he that steers by any other compass than his own sense of duty may be popular, but cannot be an honest and ... useful public servant.

Bob Taft is Mr. Republican, Mr. America, and Mr. Integrity.

The Decalogue and the Golden Rule have no place in a political campaign. The commander who lost the battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full against the brazen forehead of every traitor to this country and every maligner of his fair reputation.