David Crockett Quotes

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 [individually] to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

When someone steals a person's clothes, we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Our faith is what inspires us to reach out and volunteer to help others. As a child my parents taught me the biblical charge, "To whom much is given, much is expected," and faith guides me that way. And I believe, especially in this day and age, it's vital that we provide our children with a foundation from which to build their lives - one that gives them a sense of purpose.

in the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

You don't just give the executive branch unlimited resources, unlimited power. Our founders were very concerned about too much power being invested in any one, in any branch. The balance of power is fundamental to our system.

Those who give not till they die show that they would not then if they could keep it any longer.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

The happiest people are the most giving people

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

You should never take more than you give

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

He'd (Reggie Jackson) give you the shirt off his back. Of course he'd call a press conference to announce it.

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

He that preacheth giveth almes.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God.