Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

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.

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

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

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.