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.

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.

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.

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

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

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!

For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.