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… — 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
