I Must Say As To What I

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.

If One Man In The Country Could Take All The Money, What Was The Use Of Passing Any Bills About It?

Remember These Words When I Am Dead. First Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead.

Thare Is No Chance Of Hurrying Bussiness Here Like In The Legeslature Of A State Thare Is Such A Desposition Here To Show Eloquence That This Will Be A Long Session And Do No Good.

Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.