“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. ”

“better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.”

“Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.”

“Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”

“be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!”

“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. ”

“You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”