3 Davy Crockett Quotes on Legacy

Davy Crockett quotes on legacy

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.

8. We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

30. He is gone from among us, and is no more to be seen in the walks of men, but in his death like Sampson, he slew more of his enemies than in all his life. Even his most bitter enemies here, I believe, have buried all animosity, and join the general lamentation over his untimely end.