Davy Crockett Quotes

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

Davy 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.

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

Davy Crockett
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
I must say, as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the universe. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country here to settle.

Davy Crockett
My love was so hot as mighty nigh to burst my boilers.

Davy Crockett
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 earth.

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

Davy Crockett
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.

Davy Crockett
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.

Davy Crockett
I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.

Davy Crockett
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Davy Crockett
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.

Davy Crockett
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

Davy Crockett
I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.

Davy Crockett
Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

Davy Crockett