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There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

Henry Clay
Fear, Passion, Men

The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.

Henry Clay
Party, Passion, Reflection
Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814”, p.537, University Press of Kentucky

I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest. I am permitted ... to indulge the hope of seeing, ere long, the new United States, (if you will allow me the expression,) embracing not only the old.

Henry Clay
Passion, Expression, Long
Henry Clay (1842). “Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, of the Congress of the United States”, p.24

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