There's one I'd like to point out:
comment:I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
I point it out because Sam Houston didn't mind taking an opinion that went against the majority. He did it again during the Secession that led to Civil War. That quality was cited in the book Profiles in Courage by President Kennedy.
It seems with these polls that the conservatives have become strangers in their own land. I bring up Sam Houston because he went through the same thing himself. But he did not reverse himself just because of public opinion that went against him.
Update:
As noted above, Sam Houston was indeed against his state's secession from the Union. But that is probably not what was in Kennedy's book. The story there was then Senator Houston was against the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which subsequently enraged those who then demanded that he not be returned to the Senate. His vote there cost him his Senate seat. The Kansas-Nebraska act destroyed the Whig Party and led to the formation of a new party, which we now know as the Republicans.
My history needed to be clarified a bit.
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