American - Explorer | August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett
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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
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I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
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Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
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I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
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Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.
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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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Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
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For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.
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I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
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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.
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