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What exactly is a sockdolager ?
For instance, John Wilkes Boothe knew to time his assasination of Lincoln to the line in Our American Cousin....
"You sockdolagizing old mantrap !"
at which burst of pure hilarity the house would be rolling in the aisles, completely distracted.
This issue must be addressed.
- 5.7: Not Yours to Give
- personal archives | Provided as courtesy by Charles Starr for Congress
One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of the widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living ...Posted on 1/23/02 10:15 AM Pacific by Chapita
- 5.7: Not Yours to Give
- http://www.starr4congress.org | Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884 | DAVEY CROCKETT
ne day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of the widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living ...Posted on 8/20/01 1:03 AM Pacific by ATOMIC_PUNK
- 5.5: Not Yours To Give-Colonel David Crockett U.S. Congressman
- Devvy's Project | 1884 with comment by Devvy Kidd 8/8/98 | Edward S Elliss with comments by Devvy Kidd
NOT YOURS TO GIVE From the Life of Colonel David Crockett Member of the U.S. Congress 1827-31 & 1832-35 Complied from The Life of Colonel David Crockett by Edward S. Ellis (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1884) One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy ...Posted on 4/26/01 8:59 AM Pacific by CyberSpartacus
- 5.7: Not Yours To Give
- Conservaive U.S.A. | 1884 | Col. David Crockett; US Representative from Tennessee
In the lobby of the House of Representatives when a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support, rather . . . The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker -- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for ...Posted on 11/20/00 7:53 PM Pacific by rainingred
- 5.7: Not Yours to Give
- ConservativeUSA | none | Davy Crockett
The Conservative Caucus Documents of Freedom Collection "Not Yours To Give" by Col. David Crockett US Representative from Tennesee Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis. One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, ...Posted on 8/9/00 6:24 AM Pacific by OWK
- 5.5: Colonel David Crockett: "Not Yours To Give"
- U.S. Rep. Ron Paul Website | Unknown | David Crockett
The Office of U.S. Rep. Ron Paul 203 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515 (202) 225-2831 Not Yours To Give Col. David Crockett US Representative from Tennessee Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis. Also available as a plain text file and as a .prc file for the PalmPilot. One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett ...Posted on 3/6/00 10:25 AM Pacific by Thanatos
- 5.4: Not Yours to Give -- Speech Before the House of Representatives by David (Davy) Crockett
- Equal Time (http://www2.crosswinds.net/~equaltime/index.html) | 10/10/99
One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker --- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living ...Posted on 10/10/99 6:37 AM Pacific by Miles Bennel
- 5.7: FREEDOM AIN'T YOURS TO GIVE
- Special to THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE | Bruce Elmore <mailto:wheelnut@flash.net>
Excuse me for even asking this, but I have some questions. I have been thinking about Freedom, and this thing we call Liberty. I have been thinking especially hard about these things since the formal beginning of Fascism in America this year. It seems to me, that I am living amongst a large bunch of candy assed suck ups who are asking themselves how much Freedom they should be asking the Government for. Forgive me, but I have a problem with the basic premise of the question. "Oh what a lovely day it is Mrs. Murphy. Tell me, do you ...Posted on 8/1/99 8:08 AM Pacific by nsmart
- 5.5: Not Yours to Give (From The Life of Colonel David Crockett)
- The Freeman | 96 | Leonard Read
One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose: "Mr. Speaker — I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living ...Posted on 7/20/99 7:43 AM Pacific by OWK
- 5.7: Freedom Ain't Yours To Give
- 1999 | Lurker
Freedom Ain't Yours To Give Excuse me for even asking this, but I have some questions. I have been thinking about Freedom, and this thing we call Liberty. I have been thinking especially hard about these things since the formal beginning of Fascism in America this month. It seems to me, that I am living amongst a large bunch of candy assed suck ups who are asking themselves how much Freedom they should be asking the Government for. Forgive me, but I have a problem with the basic premise of the question. "Oh what a lovely day it is Mrs. ...Posted on 7/12/99 11:11 PM Pacific by Lurker
- 5.7: NOT YOURS TO GIVE
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- 5.7: Freedom Ain't Yours To Give
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- 5.6: NOT YOURS TO GIVE - Davy Crockett
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- 5.7: Not Yours to Give
- Posted on 11/29/99 4:00 PM Pacific by (Unknown)
- 5.7: Not Yours To Give
- Posted on 11/29/99 4:00 PM Pacific by (Unknown)
"One day in the House of Representatives, a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of the widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The Speaker was just about to put the question when Mr. Crockett arose:Urban legend or true story, the central argument of Colonel Crockett's "Not Yours to Give" speech certainly applies to the current discussion about the allocation of federal tax dollars to the victims of 9/11, does it not?'Mr. Speaker - I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this house, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please to charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.He took his seat. Nobody replied. The bill was put upon its passage, and, instead of passing unanimously, as was generally supposed, and as, not doubt, it would but for that speech, it received but few votes, and of course was lost.'Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and, if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.'
Later, when asked by a friend why he had opposed the appropriation, Crockett gave this explanation..."
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The bill from the Senate, [No. 111] entitled "An act for the relief of Mrs. Brown, widow of the late Major General Brown," was read the third time:
And on the question, "Shall the bill pass?"
The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present,
Crockett voted NAY!
I donated money to the WTC victims!
My government forcing me to do it is a crime against nature!
bttt for Katrina "relief"
True or not true - the message is quite clear. The constitution never envisaged the magnitude of todays federal government. Congressional liberties are killing this country.