Davy Crockett Quotes


"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Hell, May, Will)

"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."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Sympathy, Act, Balance, Injustice, Living, Respect)

"It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Conscience, Name, Principles)

"Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Time, Day, Independence, Liberty, Now)

"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."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Death, Enemy)

"Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Party, Will)

"Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Heart, Tongue)

"If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Money, Country, Man)

"I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized."
- Davy Crockett
"I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Man)

"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."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Country, Disgrace, Duty, Gain, Ruin, Self, Will)

"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."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Money, Charity, Congress, Public, Right)

"I have always supported measures and principles and not men."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Men, Principles)

"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."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: People, Failure, Fault, Heaven)

"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!"
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Chance, Fame)

"Be always sure you are right - then go ahead."
- Davy Crockett
(Related: Right)