The narrow legal issue in this case is whether the transactions we're talking about here are loans or not.

... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

We might contract with them to sell excess water.

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right, then go ahead