Author: Sam Houston

Quotes

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

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

- Sam Houston

I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love.

- Sam Houston

All 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.

All 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.

- Sam Houston

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

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

- Sam Houston

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.

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

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