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
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
My tongue speak what my heart thinks.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
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.