Make sure you're right, then go ahead.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
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.
Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
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!