David Crockett
aka Davy Crockett
Colonel David Stern Crockett was a celebrated 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician; referred to in popular culture as Davy Crockett and often by the popular title "King of the Wild Frontier." He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives, served in the Texas Revolution, and died at the Battle of the Alamo. His nickname was the stuff of legend, but in life he shunned the title "Davy" and referred to himself exclusively as "David".
“better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.”
David Crockett
“be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!”
David Crockett
“Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.”
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“Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.”
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“... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.”
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“It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress. ”
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“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man”
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“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 we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. ”
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“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. ”
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“You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”
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