Sam Houston Quotes - Famous Quotes by Sam Houston
Born: 1793-03-02
Died: 1863-07-26
Sam Houston Biography
A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
- Sam Houston
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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
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He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty. (Thomas Jefferson Green)
- Sam Houston
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I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
- Sam Houston
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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.
- Sam Houston
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It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.
- Sam Houston
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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
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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
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
- Sam Houston
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