Top 15 David Crockett Quotes
#2. Better to keep a good conscience with an empty purse, than to get a bad opinion of myself, with a full one.
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#3. Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
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#5. 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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#6. A man's wife can hold him devilish uneasy, if she begins to scold and fret, and perplex him, at a time when he has a full load for a railroad car on his mind already.
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#9. 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.
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#11. It was nonsense to talk about its being a sacrifice to come there; for if it were, they would not see so many grasping to be members of Congress.
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#12. I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me ... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
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#15. The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man
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