I Would Rather Be Politically Dead Than

I Want People To Be Able To Get What They Need To Live: Enough Food, A Place To Live, And An Education For Their Children. Government Does Not Provide These As Well As Private Charities And Businesses.

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.

I Know Not Whether, In The Eyes Of The World, A Brilliant Death Is Not Preferred To An Obscure Life Of Rectitude. Most Men Are Remembered As They Died, And Not As They Lived. We Gaze With Admiration Upon The Glories Of The Setting Sun, Yet Scarcely Bestow A Passing Glance Upon Its Noonday Splendor.

I Know Nothing, By Experience, Of Party Discipline. I Would Rather Be A Raccoon-dog, And Belong To A Negro In The Forest, Than To Belong To Any Party, Further Than To Do Justice To All, And To Promote The Interests Of My Country. The Time Will And Must Come, When Honesty Will Receive Its Reward, And When The People Of This Nation Will Be Brought To A Sense Of Their Duty, And Will Pause And Reflect How Much It Cost Us To Redeem Ourselves From The Government Of One Man.

Congress Allows Lemonade To The Members And Has It Charged Under The Head Of Stationery-i Move Also That Whiskey Be Allowed Under The Item Of Fuel.