“I have always supported measures and principles and not men.”
— Davy Crockett
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We must not permit our respect for
“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.”
— Davy Crockett
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We must not permit our respect for
“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.”
— Davy Crockett
Author: Davy Crockett
Category: respect
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Heaven knows that I have done all
“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.”
— Davy Crockett
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If one man in the country could
“If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?”
— Davy Crockett
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Category: money
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We have the right as individuals to
“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.”
— Davy Crockett
Author: Davy Crockett
Category: money
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