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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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.Davy Crockett
I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me.
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Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
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It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.
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I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
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I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
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