Davy Crockett Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : Letter to his children, January 09, 1836.
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“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.
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“There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.”
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“It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : Davy Crockett (1987). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”, p.205, U of Nebraska Press
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“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”
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“Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.”
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“Be sure you are right, then go ahead.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : Davy Crockett (1987). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee”, p.19, U of Nebraska Press
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“I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.”
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“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.”
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“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”
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“I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].”
-- Davy CrockettSource : Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164
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“If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.”
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“Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.”
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“The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.”
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“I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.”
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“You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas”
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“It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.”
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“Make sure you're right, then go ahead.”
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“If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?”
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“We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.
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“I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.”
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“I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.”
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“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.”
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“Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.”
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“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.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : Davy Crockett, Richard Penn Smith (1923). “The autobiography of David Crockett”
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“Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.”
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“Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good...”
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“Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.”
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“I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee”, p.135
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“I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.”
-- Davy CrockettSource : "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.
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