More From Davy Crockett
- "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."
- "If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?"
- "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."
More In Men
- "If it’s natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"― Joan Baez
- "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings."― Henry David Thoreau