David Crockett Quotes
I would rather risk myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night. God deliver me from such constituents or from a party supported by such.
The congressman visited New York City for the first time. He was taken to Martin Van Buren's political stronghold, the sixth ward.
David Crockett, 1786-1836, U.S. Congressman (Democrat, TN), Remark to S. D. Jackson, 1834
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La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
General Sherman’s capture of Atlanta was just the change that Lincoln needed. It turned the tide of Northern public opinion.
Terror conceptually in France and some other countries was the tool the government used to inhibit criminals.
This is one of the quotations from the Koran which many Islamic terrorists point to in order to morally justify terrorism. For an example, see {586965}.
He controlled a Shiite political party with its own armed militia.
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.
