"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."

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

Henry Clay

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