May Quote by Sam Houston Download Open image “Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.” — Sam Houston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare May Oppression Source Submission Texas
no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the… — William H. Wharton Copy Share Image
In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The white population of Texas from before the war, then, was never truly beaten, never truly surrendered, and was never brought violently to terms… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
Humanism is not alive and well in Texas. Different colors and types of Texans do not like one another, nor do they pretend to. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet...… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Then come to realize that you're making mountains out of molehills. Realize how petty you've become. Sure, it may feel like you can't get… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
She smiled, if he could see that, and waited for him to ask the real question. But he was silent. He wanted her to… — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
