I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

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.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

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.

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!

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.