Davy Crockett Quotes

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• Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
• 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…
• You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
• 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…
• 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.…
• Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
• A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big…
• There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
• Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
• 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…
• 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…
• You can all go to Hell, I’m going to Texas!
• 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…
• Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

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