"I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men"

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity"

"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time"

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily"