Davy Crockett

“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”

“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.”

“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?”

“The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.”

“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.”