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 Read Quote
I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased – the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent. Davy Crockett Read Quote
For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don’t think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten. Davy Crockett Read Quote
The party in power, like Jonah’s gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. Davy Crockett Read Quote
You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people’s faithful representative, and the public’s most obedient, very humble servant. Davy Crockett Read Quote
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it? Davy Crockett Read Quote
No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child’s play to it. I’ve tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs. Davy Crockett Read Quote
It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months’ schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it. Davy Crockett Read Quote
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. Davy Crockett Read Quote
I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn’t been that I concluded I couldn’t do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one. Davy Crockett Read Quote
