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

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.

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

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!

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.

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