More From Davy Crockett
- "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."
- "If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about 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."
More In Men
- "It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- "The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them."― Woodrow Wilson
- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."― Thomas Jefferson