Quotes by 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!"

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

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"I have always supported measures and principles and not men."

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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."

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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."

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