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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 304
AUTHOR: Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858)
QUOTATION: He votes as a Southern man, and votes sectionally; I am also a Southern man, but vote nationally on national questions.
ATTRIBUTION: Senator THOMAS HART BENTON.—Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Hart Benton, chapter 15, p. 349 (1897, reprinted 1968).
SUBJECTS: Congressmen