Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

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 can all go to hell. I'm going to Texas.

If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

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.

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.

No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

I am now here in Congress... I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

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.

I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust tree.

You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.