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Sam Houston has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Do right and risk the consequences.
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Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you…
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Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of…
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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.…
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It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good…
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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…
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I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny…
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I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions.…
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I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He…
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…
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To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States,…
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A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,…
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Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over…
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The Russian drama began at the end of 1991, when the Soviet Union mercifully ended. Russia and 14 other new countries emerged…
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Our difficulties launch us into new states of consciousness where we are inspired to step out of the reality of our smallest…
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We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might…
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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…
— Sam Houston
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you…
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I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon…
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