Quotes from Davy Crockett

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.

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.

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.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

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.

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.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

We have rights, as individuals, to give as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of public money.

Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

Know your right, then go ahead.

Be sure you're right-then go ahead.

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!

And 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 he'll and I will go to Texas.

You may all go to hell, and I'll go to Texas.

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.

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.