Davy Crockett Quotes

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• You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas.

  Davy Crockett

  Texas, Hell, Go To Hell

  "History of Texas Part IV: Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie", www.glennbeck.com. March 3, 2017.

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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 Crockett

  Money, Giving, Charity

  "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.

  Davy Crockett

  Government, Tick, Bloodsuckers

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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.

  Davy Crockett

  Dog, Regret, Independent

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 133, 1994.

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• Be sure you are right, then go ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

  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 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 Crockett

  Country, Believe, Cowboy

  Letter to his children, January 09, 1836.

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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.

  Davy Crockett

  Children, Government, People

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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 Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Firsts, Remember

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  I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

  Davy Crockett

  Eye, Men, World

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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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 Crockett

  Party, Hands, Liberty

  Davy Crockett, Richard Penn Smith (1923). “The autobiography of David Crockett”

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• My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

  Davy Crockett

  Heart, Thinking, Tongue

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Davy Crockett, 1836.

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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. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. 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 Crockett

  Giving, Balance, Charity

  "The Unconstitutional Congress" by Stephen Moore, www.hoover.org. April 01, 1995.

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• I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

  Davy Crockett

  Men, Principles

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 133, 1994.

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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 Crockett

  Names, Judgement, Bows

  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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• I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

  Davy Crockett

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

  Davy Crockett

  Dog, Men, Littles

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 133, 1994.

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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.

  Davy Crockett

  Moving, Fuel, Whiskey

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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!

  Davy Crockett

  Pigs, Hands, Tails

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• I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Dog, Honesty

  "David Crockett: His Life and Adventures". Book by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, p. 294, 1875.

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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.

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Self, Ruins

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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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 Crockett

  Strong, Fighting, Texas

  "Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas". Book by Richard Penn Smith, 1836.

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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 Crockett

  Honesty, Book, Men

  Davy Crockett, Thomas Chilton (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee”, p.135

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

  Davy Crockett

  Change, Men, Courses

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 112, 1994.

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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?

  Davy Crockett

  Country, Men, Use

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