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!

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

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

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

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

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.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.