Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.

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

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

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.

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!