All Davy Crockett Quotes
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
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I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
Davy Crockett
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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 fault of others.
Davy Crockett
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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.
Davy Crockett
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The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett
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I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
Davy Crockett
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Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
Davy Crockett
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I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett
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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
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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
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The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Davy Crockett
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