3 Davy Crockett Quotes on History

Davy Crockett quotes on history

7. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

29. The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrours, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.

31. Though tortured before they were killed, these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers.