Sam Houston's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Politician
Nation: American
Biography of Sam Houston
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Tags: Learn, May, OppressionTexas 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.
Tags: Again, Country, StandA leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
Tags: Leader, Lives, SomeoneThe benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Tags: Education, Government, KnowledgeIn 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.
Tags: Her, Love, NameI 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.
Tags: Give, Honest, ThoughtRemember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
Tags: May, Remember, WomanI am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
Tags: Alone, Rights, StandAll new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.
Tags: Class, Less, MenTexas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Tags: Another, Dead, LivingWhether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
Tags: Nation, Whether, WrongI would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
Tags: Father, School, Time