DCDavy Crockett

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Davy Crockett

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Quotations and sayings

01Undated

Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

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02Undated

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.

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03Undated

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.

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04Undated

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.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

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!

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07Undated

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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08Undated

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.

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09Undated

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.

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