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“You can all go to hell; I will go to Texas”
― David Crockett

“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. ”
― David Crockett

“Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're 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.
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― David Crockett

“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man”
― David Crockett

“Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.”
― Davy Crockett

“It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress. ”
― David Crockett

“... A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.”
― David Crockett

“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!”
― David Crockett

“Know your right, then go ahead.”
― Davy Crockett

“Be sure you're right-then go ahead.”
― Davy Crockett

“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”
― Davy Crockett

“better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.”
― David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee

“Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.”
― David Crockett

“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.”
― David Crockett

“be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!”
― David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee

“Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.”
― David Crockett

“And 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, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee.

“I had gone but a little way before I killed a fine buck, and started to go back to the boat; but on the way I came on the tracks of a large gang of elks, and so I took after them. I had followed them only a little distance when I saw them, and directly after I saw two large bucks. I”
― David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee.

“Fashion is a thing I care mighty little about, except when it happens to run just exactly according to my own notion...”
― David Crockett, A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state Tennessee

“You may all go to hell, and I'll go to Texas.”
― Davy Crockett

“There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.”
― David Crockett

“You may all go to he'll and I will go to Texas.”
― Davy Crockett

“You may all go to hell, and I will go to Texas”
― David Crockett

“My tongue speak what my heart thinks.”
― David Crockett, Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas, Written by Himself [Ed. by A.J. Dumas]

“...I was certain his anger would hang on to him like a turkle does to a fisherman's toe...”
― David Crockett, A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state Tennessee

“The general took much pains to reply to Alexander, but didn't so much as let on that there was any such candidate as myself at all. He had been speaking for a considerable time, when a large flock of guinea-fowls came very near to where he was, and set up the most unmerciful chattering that ever was heard, for they are a noisy little brute any way. They so confused the general, that he made a stop, and requested that they might be driven away. I let him finish his speech, and then walking up to him, said aloud, "Well, colonel, you are the first man I ever saw that understood the language of fowls." I told him that he had not had the politeness to name me in his speech, and that when my little friends, the guinea-fowls, had come up and began to holler "Crockett, Crockett, Crockett," he had been ungenerous enough to stop, and drive them all away.”
― David Crockett, A narrative of the life of David Crockett of the state Tennessee