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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I know, that obscure as I am, my name is making a considerable deal of fuss in the world. I can't tell why it is, nor in what it is to end. Go where I will, everybody seems anxious to get a peep at me... There must therefore be something in me, or about me, that attracts attention, which is even mysterious to myself.Davy Crockett
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I don't know of any thing in my book to be criticized on by honorable men. Is it on my spelling? - that's not my trade. Is it on my grammar ? - I hadn't time to learn it, and make no pretensions to it. Is it on the order and arrangement of my book ? - I never wrote one before, and never read very many; and, of course, know mighty little about that.Davy Crockett
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In peace or in war I have stood by thy side - My country, for thee I have lived, would have died! But I am cast off, my career now is run, And I wander abroad like the prodigal son - Where the wild savage roves, and the broad prairies spread, The fallen - despised - will again go ahead.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.... I was also a supporter of this administration after it came into power, and until the Chief Magistrate changed the principles which he professed before his election. When he quitted those principles, I quit him.Davy Crockett
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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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I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, and one that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.Davy Crockett
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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
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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
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I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.Davy Crockett
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Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.Davy Crockett
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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
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Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.Davy Crockett
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I leave this rule for others when I'm dead Be always sure you're right - THEN GO AHEAD!Davy Crockett
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I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.Davy Crockett
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The corn that I planted, the fields that I cleared, The flocks that I raised, and the cabin I reared; The wife of my bosom - Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.Davy Crockett
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I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.Davy Crockett
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I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.Davy Crockett
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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
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If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?Davy Crockett
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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
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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.Davy Crockett
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Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.Davy Crockett
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I know nothing, by experience, of party discipline. I would rather be a raccoon-dog, and belong to a Negro in the forest, than to belong to any party, further than to do justice to all, and to promote the interests of my country.Davy Crockett
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I am rejoiced at my fate. I had rather be in my present situation than to be elected to a seat in congress for life. I am in great hopes of making a fortune for myself and family. I hope you will do the best you can and I will do the same. Do not be uneasy about me for I am with my friends.Davy Crockett
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