I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

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

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.

Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

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.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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.

The law of circulation is the power of communication.

All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons.

But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

True success is reaching our potential without compromising our values.