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.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about 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.
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.