Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

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

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.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.