Be Always Sure You Are Right Then Go Ahead
... They pegged Santa Anna to be the “Napoleon of the west,” and claimed a general in his army had found Travis’s dead body and drawn his sword “to mangle the face and limbs with the malignant feelings of a Comanche savage” (Be always…) After I thought I had exhausted all my possible resources, I came upon an article that claimed to have proof that Davy did not die in combat, the very controversy that got me started to begin with. ... Davy Crockett is known to have coined the term, “Be always sure you are right, then go ahead. ... In history, you cannot always be sure, but you must still go ahead.