Davy Crockett E Quotes & Sayings

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

I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. 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

I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it. — Paul Mooney

I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest. — Libba Bray

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

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. — Davy Crockett

You can all go to Hell, I'm going to Texas! — Davy Crockett

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead. — David Crockett

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized. — Davy Crockett

The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats, ... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing. — Joan Rivers

I have always supported measures and principles and not men. — Davy 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. — Davy Crockett

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

When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett. — Phil Collins

You can go to hell
I'm going to Texas. — Davy Crockett

I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country. The time will and must come, when honesty will receive its reward, and when the people of this nation will be brought to a sense of their duty, and will pause and reflect how much it cost us to redeem ourselves from the government of one man. — Davy 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. — Davy Crockett

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

Texas was where the action was. It became a lodestar, pulling an enormous number of the men - Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, James Bowie, and others - who were already in some way legends on the old frontier. As one historian wrote, Texas seemed to cast some sort of spell, to make men who were cold, pragmatic, and opportunist in the main, want to go and die. — T.R. Fehrenbach

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks. — Davy Crockett

Be sure you are right, then go ahead. — 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

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

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

You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas — Davy Crockett

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt. — Phil Collins

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 ... — Davy Crockett