Davy Crockett

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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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

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Be always sure you are right - then go ahead. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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

— Davy Crockett

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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

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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

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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

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I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized. ↗

— Davy Crockett

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