Quotes by Sam Houston

• 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.
• Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
• 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.
• The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
• Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
• A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
• 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.