Christopher Gadsden Quotes
It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
Gadsden, Christopher. The Writings of Christopher Gadsden, 1746-1805. Edited by Richard Walsh, University of South Carolina Press, 1966.
Ford, then Vice President, was attending a Senate Republican policy luncheon during the Watergate crisis. The senators began discussing the possibility of sending a delegation to President Nixon, advising him to resign.
Christopher Gadsden was the principal leader of the South Carolina Patriot movement during the American Revolution and a soldier, politician and slave owner from South Carolina. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress, a brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, a merchant, and the designer of the Gadsden flag.
