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!
Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
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.