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Davy Crockett Quotes

1786–1836 United States

David Crockett (17 August 1786 – 6 March 1836), usually referred to as Davy Crockett, was an American frontiersman, soldier and politician. After serving as a US Congressman for the state of Tennessee, he joined in the Texas Revolution and died in the Battle of the Alamo.

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Also known as: Crockett, Davy

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

The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it.

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

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.

Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)

I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world.

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread,
The fallen — despised — will again go ahead.

Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead
Be always sure you're right — THEN GO AHEAD!

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

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

David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994)

I don't know of any thing in my book to be criticized on by honorable men.

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

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.

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

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.

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)

The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared,
The flocks that I raised, and the cabin I reared;
The wife of my bosom — Farewell to ye all!
In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)

I must say as to what I have seen of Texas, it is the garden spot of the world. The best land & best prospects for health I ever saw is here, and I do believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country to settle.

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.

David Crockett : His Life and Adventures (1875)

I am no man's man. I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is.

Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom! throughout the day. No time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and Independence forever.

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.

David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994)

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

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...

Money with them is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.

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.

David Crockett : His Life and Adventures (1875)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Davy Crockett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.