Sam Houston

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. ↗

— Sam Houston

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Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages. ↗

— Sam Houston

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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. ↗

— Sam Houston

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In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. ↗

— Sam Houston

#bloodshed #bring #civil #constitution #her

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. ↗

— Sam Houston

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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. ↗

— Sam Houston

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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. ↗

— Sam Houston

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Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman. ↗

— Sam Houston

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All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men. ↗

— Sam Houston

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Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican. ↗

— Sam Houston

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