Sam Houston Quotes

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• We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for…
• Do right and risk the consequences.
• Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern…
• 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…
• 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…
• It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was…
• 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…
• I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
• I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do…
• I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up…
• I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the…
• To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never…
• I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill…
• 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…
• Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas
• Govern wisely, and as little as possible
• 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…
• Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
• I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
• He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.

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