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.

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.

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

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

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

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

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.