Occupation: Soldier Birth: August 17, 1786 Death: March 6, 1836
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized..
Be sure you are right, then go ahead..
I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I ha….
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 die….
I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and the best prospects for health I ever saw, and I do b….
Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead..
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 ….
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississip….
My tongue speak what my heart thinks..
I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog..
I have always supported measures and principles and not men..
You can all go to hell. I’m going to Texas..
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 grati….
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 t….
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine..
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 cha….
There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all..
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..
I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provid….
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. I will n….
I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it….