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

  Davy Crockett

  Party, Fall, Gourds

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 107, 1994.

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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

  Country, Men, Use

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• It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.

  Davy Crockett

  Strong, Ambition, Reality

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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

  Sympathy, Respect, Balance

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

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• Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

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  Forever, Independence, Liberty

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

  Davy Crockett

  Party, Hands, Looks

  Davy Crockett, Richard Penn Smith (1923). “The autobiography of David 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

  Long, Enemy, Savages

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• Make sure you're right, then go ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Integrity

  "David Crockett: His Life and Adventures". Book by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, 1874.

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• If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Real, Men

  "5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear" by Heather Crawford, www.espn.com. October 4, 2010.

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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

  People, Heaven, Faults

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106, 1994.

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• Farewell to ye all! In the land of the stranger I rise or I fall.

  Davy Crockett

  Fall, Farewell, Land

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas

  Davy Crockett

  Cowboy, Texas

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• You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

  Davy Crockett

  Texas, Hell, Go To Hell

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• Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.

  Davy Crockett

  Writing, Hands, Oysters

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.

  Davy Crockett

  New York, Numbers, Tree

  Davy Crockett (1835). “An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East: In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four. His Object Being to Examine the Grand Manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and Also to Find Out the Condition of Its Literature and Its Morals, the Extent of Its Commerce, and the Practical Operation of "The Experiment" ...”, p.37

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• Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.

  Davy Crockett

  Long, Chance, States

  "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend". Book by James Atkins Shackford, p. 89, 1994.

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