Words matter. These are the best Davy Crockett Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Be always sure you are right – then go ahead.
I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
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.
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
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.
You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people’s faithful representative, and the public’s most obedient, very humble servant.
The party in power, like Jonah’s gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
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.
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.