Davy Crockett

You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.

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 learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one.