I Would Rather Be Politically Dead Than

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?

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.

A Bulger Of A Place It Is. The Number Of The Ships Beat Me All Hollow, And Looked For All The World Like A Big Clearing In The West, With The Dead Trees All Standing.

Fame Is Like A Shaved Pig With A Greased Tail, And It Is Only After It Has Slipped Through The Hands Of Some Thousands, That Some Fellow, By Mere Chance, Holds On To It!