I Would Rather Be Politically Dead Than

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. I Will Not Attempt To Prove That Congress Has No Power To Appropriate This Money As An Act Of Charity. Every Member Upon This Floor Knows It. 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.

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.

I Want People To Be Able To Get What They Need To Live: Enough Food, A Place To Live, And An Education For Their Children. Government Does Not Provide These As Well As Private Charities And Businesses.

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.

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.