Davy Crockett Quotes About Charity

Quotes about: Charity

• 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

  Money, Giving, Charity

  "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.

• I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.

  Davy Crockett

  Children, Government, People

• 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. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. 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

  Giving, Balance, Charity

  "The Unconstitutional Congress" by Stephen Moore, www.hoover.org. April 01, 1995.

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