Oppression Come Quotes by Sam Houston

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Sam Houston has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain…
• 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…
• Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of…
• I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started.…
• It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good…
• Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or…
• I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny…
• I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions.…
• I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He…
• I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public…
• 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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