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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
Country
Man
Money
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" It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my conscience and judgement. such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. "
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" I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first rules in figures. And this was all the schooling I ever had in my life, up to this day. I should have continued longer if it hadn't been that I concluded I couldn't do any longer without a wife, and so I cut out to hunt me one. "
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" Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. "
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" No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs in the dog days is child's play to it. I've tried both, and give the preference to the gum logs. "
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" The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. "
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" I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. "
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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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