Author: Davy Crockett

Quotes

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

- Davy Crockett

I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

- Davy Crockett

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

- Davy Crockett

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.

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

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

- Davy Crockett

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

- Davy Crockett

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.

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

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!

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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