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

I am now here in Congress... I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure. Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

Fashion is a thing I care mighty little about, except when it happens to run just exactly according to my own notion...

I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.