I Would Rather Be Beaten, And Be

I Know Not Whether, In The Eyes Of The World, A Brilliant Death Is Not Preferred To An Obscure Life Of Rectitude. Most Men Are Remembered As They Died, And Not As They Lived. We Gaze With Admiration Upon The Glories Of The Setting Sun, Yet Scarcely Bestow A Passing Glance Upon Its Noonday Splendor.

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 Also Told Them Of The Manner In Which I Had Been Knocked Down And Dragged Out, And That I Didn't Consider It A Fair Fight Any How They Could Fix It. I Put The Ingredients In The Cup Pretty Strong I Tell You, And I Concluded My Speech By Telling Them That I Was Done With Politics For The Present, And They Might All Go To Hell, And I Would Go To Texas.

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

Be Sure You Are Right, Then Go Ahead.