Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett
David "Davy" Crockettwas a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth17 August 1786
CountryUnited States of America
party fall gourds
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
strong fighting texas
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. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.
forever independence liberty
Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
firsts remember
Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.
people heaven done
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.
country men bills
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
cowboy texas
You can all go to heck; I will go to Texas
texas hell go-to-hell
You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.
long enemy complaining
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
long chance states
Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good...
writing hands oysters
Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.
new-york numbers tree
A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.
integrity
Make sure you're right, then go ahead.
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.