"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew……" — Davy Crockett
"The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall."
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35 Quotes by Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett has 35 quotes on this site.
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Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
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It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical…
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You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas
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I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The…
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was…
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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…
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If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed…
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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…
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I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I…
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I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and…
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Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
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A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all…
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
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The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
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To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.
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I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit…
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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