Sam Houston Quotes
"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
- Sam Houston
(Related: May, Oppression)
"Remember 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."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Friends, Lady, Man, May, Woman)
"I 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."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Time, Father, Doubt, Months, Old, School, Years)
"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Education, Government, Knowledge, Benefits, Community)
"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Policy, Glory, Nation, Right, Wrong)
"Texas, 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."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Living)
"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
(Related: Thought, Man, Posterity, Reputation, World)
"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
(Related: Men, Class, Extreme, states)
"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Rights)
"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."
- Sam Houston
(Related: Leader, People)
"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
(Related: Love, Constitution, Name)