Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
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 would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.