Top 24 Sam Houston Quotes
#1. The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston
#2. Bear in Mind ... that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.
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#3. When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.
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#4. Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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#5. Govern wisely, and as little as possible
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#6. My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.
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#7. A victim of the use of water as a beverage.
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#8. I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
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#9. I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
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#10. Let me tell you what is coming ... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet ... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence ... but I doubt it.
Sam Houston
#11. I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
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#15. Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
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#17. He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.
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#18. I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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
#22. 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.
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#23. Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas
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#24. A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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