
“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
Source: Ten Things I Love About You
On President Jackson and the Indian Removal Act, in Ch. 17
A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834)
Context: It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson, and follow him in all his motions, and windings, and turnings, even at the expense of my consciences and judgment. Such a thing was new to me, and a total stranger to my principles. … His famous, or rather I should say infamous Indian bill was brought forward and, and I opposed it from the purest motives in the world. Several of my colleagues got around me, and told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They said it was a favorite measure of the President, and I ought to go for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked unjust measure, and that I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I was willing to go with General Jackson in everything that I believed was honest and right; but further than this, I wouldn't go for him, or any other man in the whole creation.
“Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.”
Source: Ten Things I Love About You
Source: Discipleship (1937), Discipleship and the Cross, p. 85
Letter (28 January 1834), reported in A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834), p. 113, final paragraph.
“To subordinate my judgment to his desires was the undoing of me.”
Source: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923), Chapter XIII, p. 159
“Even if I am dismissed, I can only act as a Christian, as my conscience tells me.”
Quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
His last wish noted in "Bollywood: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow", pages=135-36