Quote by Davy Crockett
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save

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

Other quotes by Davy Crockett

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

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Money
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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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respect
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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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Failure
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I have probably purchased fifty hot tips in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser. – Charles M. Schwab

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There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success. – Max Beerbohm

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Failure

If you learn from defeat, you havent really lost. – Zig Ziglar

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Failure

Pharmaceutical companies are enjoying unprecedented profits and access with this Administration. Yet the Republicans prescription drug plan for seniors has been a colossal failure, and over 43 million Americans wake up every morning without health insurance. – Jim Clyburn

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Failure

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams

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Money wont buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. – Bill Vaughan

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funny

When ale is in, wit is out. – John Heywood, c.1562

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Beer

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty. – Alexandra Fuller

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