I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're rightthen go ahead.
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!
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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.
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.
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Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
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.
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
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Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.
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I am rejoiced at my fate. I had rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in congress for life. I am in great hopes of making a fortune for myself and family. I hope you will do the best you can and I will do the same. Do not be uneasy about me for I am with my friends.
familyfatefortunetso-life
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.
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