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12 quotes by Sam Houston

Samuel "Sam" Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United States as a constituent state. His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from Mexico. The only American to be elected governor of two different States (as opposed to territories or indirect appointments), he was also the only Southern governor to oppose...
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

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

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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... →

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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.

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.

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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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