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

Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
Davy Crockett

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
Davy Crockett

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

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

Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
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

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