Davy Crockett Quotes - Page 2

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

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.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

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.

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

Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.

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

Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

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

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

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.

You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.

A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

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.