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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.

— Davy Crockett

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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)

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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