Political Insults & Putdowns

Quotes and Insulting Quotations from Henry Clay

A rigid, fanatic, ambitious, selfish partisan, and sectional turncoat with too much genius and too little common sense, who will either die a traitor or a madman
On John Calhoun

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world
On Native Americans

I cannot believe that the killing of 2000 Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies a person for the various difficult and complicated duties of the Presidency
On Andrew Jackson

He is ignorant, passionate, hypocritical, corrupt and easily swayed by the basest men who surround him
On Andrew Jackson

He is certainly the basest, meanest scoundrel that ever disgraced the image of God, nothing is too mean or low for him to condescend to
Andrew Jackson on Henry Clay

I didn't shoot Henry Clay and I didn't hang John Calhoun
Andrew Jackson on things he had left undone