Quotes from David Crockett

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,Be always sure you're right—then go ahead.

Don't shoot, Colonel, I'll come down: I know I'm a gone coon.

If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the earth.

You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

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.

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man

It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress.

A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.

Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large bucks. I

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!