Davy Crockett

Explorer

1786-08-17

Quotes by Davy Crockett

• No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs.

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• You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.

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• 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.

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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!

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

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

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• Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

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• I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.

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• I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.

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• For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

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• I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you are right-then go ahead.

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