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.

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.

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

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

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.

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