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

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As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, Introduction, p. xi

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Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.

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