Top 15 Davy Crockett Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

Be always sure you are right – then go ahead.

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.

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.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

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.

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

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

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.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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.

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.