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.

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

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

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.