Davy Crockett 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 more..more..
“ Davy Crockett: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. #Money#Money
“ Davy Crockett:I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying
“ Davy Crockett:I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land & best prospects for health I ever saw is here, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country to settle. #Politicians and Politics#Politicians and Politics
“ 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. #Failure#Failure
“ Davy Crockett:I am rejoiced at my fate. I had rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in congress for life. I am in great hopes of making a fortune for myself and family. I hope you will do the best you can and I will do the same. Do not be uneasy about me for I am with my friends. #Friends and Friendship#Friends and Friendship
“ Davy Crockett:We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. #Death and Dying#Death and Dying
“ Davy Crockett: Be always sure your are right, then go ahead. #Right and Rightness #Right and Rightness
“ Davy Crockett:Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it. #Money#Money
“ Davy Crockett: 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! #Fame #Fame
“ Davy Crockett:Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.... I was also a supporter of this administration after it came into power, and until the Chief Magistrate changed the principles which he professed before his election. When he quitted those principles, I quit him. I am yet a Jackson man in principles, but not in name... I shall insist upon it that I am still a Jackson man, but General Jackson is not; he has become a Van Buren man. #Politicians and Politics#Politicians and Politics
“ Davy Crockett:The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. #Exile#Exile
“ Davy Crockett:I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless[ly] and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. #Politicians and Politics#Politicians and Politics
“ Davy Crockett:Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom! throughout the day. No time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and Independence forever. #Management#Management
“ Davy Crockett:Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good... #Eloquence#Eloquence
“ Davy Crockett: I am now here in Congress I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. #Uncategorised#Uncategorised
“ Davy Crockett: Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. #Government#Government
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