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“Do right and risk the consequences.”
— Sam Houston

#Cowboy #Risk #Consequence

“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”
— Sam Houston

#Texas #May #Oppression

“I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.”
— Sam Houston

#Government #Hands #Land

“I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.”
— Sam Houston

#Rights #Advocating #Presenting

“A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.”
— Sam Houston

#Leadership #People #Helping

“Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!”
— Sam Houston

#Blessed #Texas #Vision

“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 present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father’s name.”
— Sam Houston

#Children #Father #Bad Ass

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

#Education #Government #Aquariums

“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 advantages.”
— Sam Houston

#Country #Texas #Natural

“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.”
— Sam Houston

#Honesty #Character #Men

“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 bloodshed upon her.”
— Sam Houston

#Texas #Names #Civil War

“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 and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.”
— Sam Houston

— Sam Houston

“Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas”

Sam Houston was a great General/Politician/Diplomat other states will not let Texas go.