Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
I didn't deserve to get my title stripped after three ACL reconstructions. I didn't deserve to be out for four years. But it happened to me, and so I definitely learned over the years that you don't deserve anything. Nothing you have is yours. Everything is up for grabs in this world.
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
I am a trial lawyer. Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
I'm entitled to collect my fair share of community property without being called names.