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

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

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

- 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

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

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

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

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.

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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