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 Copy Share Image
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… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized. — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
