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.
From Davy Crockett
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.
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.
Be always sure you are right - then 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!
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
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