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