I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large bucks. I.

— David Crockett

David Crockett Quotes

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

— David Crockett

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.

— David Crockett

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.

— David Crockett

Strong

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.

— David Crockett

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

— David Crockett

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...

— David 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.

— David 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.

— David Crockett

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

— David Crockett

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

— David Crockett

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.

— David Crockett

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

— David 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 universal earth.

— David Crockett

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.

— David Crockett

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

— David Crockett

I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.

— David Crockett

Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.

— David 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.

— David Crockett

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

— David Crockett

I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large bucks. I.

— David Crockett

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