Davy Crockett Quotes (23 Quotes)


    We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money. (Colonel David

    I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me.


    I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

    The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.


    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.

    Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.

    But we have two big German shepherds in the back yard. If she'd been able to get to them, we wouldn't be talking at the hospital now.

    Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

    Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

    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.

    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.

    You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.

    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.

    I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

    If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

    Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

    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.

    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.

    I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

    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!


    Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.


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