“Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.”

See also: "Live or die, sink or swim" (George Peele, Edward I, c. 1584)
Source: Discourse in Commemoration of Adams and Jefferson (1826), p. 133

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Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – … 1782–1852

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