Davy Crockett Men Quotations

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.

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.

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.

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.

Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.