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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I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
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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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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.
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You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.
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I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
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