• 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 to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

    Davy Crockett: 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 to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
    "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.