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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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!