Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. - Davy Crockett

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

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.