Excerpt from The Clay Code, or Text-Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Axioms, Apothegms, Sentiments, and Remarkable Passages on Liberty, Government, Political Morality and National Honor; Gathered From the Public Speeches of Henry Clay
His most ardent prayers at the shrine of his tutelary goddess, liberty, are for his own country, his own altars, his own home! But after that, he pours forth an ardent aspiration for universai. Freedom; and the strain of his fervent and impassioned eloquence comprehends, in the circle Of an enlarged benevolence, the inhabitants of every, the nearest and most distant lands; or (as he himself expresses it) The liberty and happiness of the whole human family.
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