David Crockett Quotes
I would not wear a collar round my neck, with ‘my dog’ on it, and the name of ANDREW JACKSON on the collar.
Crockett has been a major supporter of Andrew Jackson. However, after Jackson became president Crockett broke with him over some of his new policies and practices. For example, he disapproved of the Indian Removal Bill, which allowed for forced expulsion of the Cherokees and other “civilized tribes” from the southeastern states. Indian removal went along with the unfair treatment of squatters, who were expelled from the public domain and were barred from securing land that they had settled and improved. Jackson supporters castigated Crockett for his “disloyalty” and Crockett was equally critical of them for going along with Jackson like a pack of dogs without daring what his policies were. This quotation was made in this context.
David Crockett Statement, 1831
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Southern secession and the Civil War This is one of the major quotations with which historians rebut the revisionist view that the Civil War was about States’ Rights or other economic factors.
David "Davy" Crockett was 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.
