I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.