You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

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.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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

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.