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Político estadounidense de Kentucky (1777-1852)
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Henry Clay fue un abogado, estadista y diplomático estadounidense que representó a Kentucky tanto en la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos como en el Senado de los Estados Unidos. Fue el séptimo presidente de la Cámara así como el noveno secretario de Estado. Clay se postuló sin éxito para presidente en las elecciones de 1824, 1832 y 1844. Ayudó a fundar tanto el Partido Nacional Republicano como el Partido Whig. Por su papel en la resolución de crisis seccionales, ganó el apelativo de "Great Compromiser" y fue parte de la "Great Triumvirate" de congresistas, junto con su compañero whig Daniel Webster y el demócrata John C. Calhoun.
“How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!”
“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 ….”
“The gentleman cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."”
“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.”
“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.”
“I would rather be right than be President.”
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