Henry Clay quote: I am not, sir, in favor of cherishing the passion...

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

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

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