Henry Clay was an American side paddle wheel steamboat. Built in 1851, it caught fire while on a run on the Hudson River between Albany, New York and New York City on July 28, 1852. Between 50 and over 80 of its over 500 passengers died in what was the river's worst steam disaster, near Riverdale, in The Bronx, New York. It was the deadliest steamboat disaster in New York City, until the burning of the PS General Slocum in 1904.

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Notable quotes

“How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!”
— Letter (4 December 1801), as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2002)
“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 ….”
— Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810)
“The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."”
— Speech on the New Army Bill, House of Representatives, (8 January 1813), paraphrasing Josiah Quincy III's "amicably if they can, violently if they must"; The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory
“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”
— Speech, Senate (14 March 1834)
“We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.”
— Letter to David Mundell (12 October 1848) in which Clay reflects upon his failure to win the Presidency.
“I would rather be right than be President.”
— Speech, Senate (1850), referring to the Compromise Measures

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!”
— Letter (4 December 1801), as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (2002)
“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 ….”
— Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810)
“The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."”
— Speech on the New Army Bill, House of Representatives, (8 January 1813), paraphrasing Josiah Quincy III's "amicably if they can, violently if they must"; The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay, vol. I (1857), ed. Daniel Mallory
“The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.”
— Speech, Senate (14 March 1834)
“We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.”
— Letter to David Mundell (12 October 1848) in which Clay reflects upon his failure to win the Presidency.
“I would rather be right than be President.”
— Speech, Senate (1850), referring to the Compromise Measures

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Henry Clay was an American side paddle wheel steamboat. Built in 1851, it caught fire while on a run on the Hudson River between Albany, New York and New York City on July 28, 1852. Between 50 and over 80 of its over 500 passengers died in what was the river's worst steam disaster, near Riverdale, in The Bronx, New York. It was the deadliest steamboat disaster in New York City, until the burning of the PS General Slocum in 1904.

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Henry Clay was an American side paddle wheel steamboat. Built in 1851, it caught fire while on a run on the Hudson River between Albany, New York and New York City on July 28, 1852. Between 50 and over 80 of its over 500 passengers died in what was the river's worst steam disaster, near Riverdale, in The Bronx, New York. It was the deadliest steamboat disaster in New York City, until the burning of the PS General Slocum in 1904.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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