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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.

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

I Must Say As To What I Have Seen Of Texas It Is The Garden Spot Of The World. The Best Land And The Best Prospects For Health I Ever Saw, And I Do Believe It Is A Fortune To Any Man To Come Here. There Is A World Of Country Here To Settle.

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.

You Can All Go To Heck; I Will Go To Texas