It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

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

Make sure you're 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.

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!

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

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.