Henry Clay
Henry Clay was a lawyer and politician from Kentucky in both the senate and house. In 1844, he was dubbed the “Great Pacificator” for the amount of compromises he brokered. Along with his friend Daniel Webster, he formulated the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850. Lincoln liked Clay so much that he went on to say Clay is “my ideal of a great man.”
"The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed but for posterity - unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity."