American - Explorer | August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836
I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.
Davy Crockett
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It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.
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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.
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No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs.
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I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
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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.
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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.
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You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.
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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!
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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.
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Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
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The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
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