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Do right and risk the consequences.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Consequence
Cowboy
Risk
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Govern wisely, and as little as possible
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Power
Wise
Advice
Political
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A victim of the use of water as a beverage.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Beverages
Use
Water
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I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Ends
Humble
Lists
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He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Loyalty
Characteristics
Dog
Luck
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I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Bloodshed
Strife
Texas
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Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Brandy
Destruction
Cause
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Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Blessed
Texas
Vision
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
May
Oppression
Source
Submission
Texas
Come
Any
Learn
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Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
States
Texas
United States
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Leadership
Helping
Improvement
Leader
People
Helps
Improve
Other
System
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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 / Former United States Senator
Alone
Advocating
Presenting
Rights
Very
Stand
Alone Myself I Am
Advocate
Much
Am
Aware
Indians
Shall
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I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Men
Brother
Track
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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 / Former United States Senator
Men
Character
Honest
Honest Man
Honesty
If I Could
Might
Posterity
Reputation
Transmit
Man World Me
Could
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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 / Former United States Senator
Education
Knowledge
Government
Aquariums
Benefits
Community
Free Government
Preservation
Useful Knowledge
Useful
Essential
Generally
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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 / Former United States Senator
Men
Arms
Gallant
Generous
Generous Man
May
Conduct
Lady
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My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
War
Mad
People
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Texas will again lift its 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 / Former United States Senator
Compare
Country
Nations
Ought
Texas
Will
Stand
Advantages
Again
Among
Globe
Head
Lift
No Country
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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 / Former United States Senator
Benefits
Mexican
Texas
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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 / Former United States Senator
Country
Natural
Texas
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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 / Former United States Senator
Anna
Mexican
Polite
Santa
Texas
Living
Benefit
Dead
Incalculable
Just Be
Respected
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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 / Former United States Senator
Dignity
Attend
Frequent
Lady
To Love
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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 / Former United States Senator
Bloodshed
Civil War
Constitution
Names
Oath
Refuse
Strife
Texas
Been
Name
Bring
Civil
Take
Too
Her
Well
Trampled
Which
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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 / Former United States Senator
Men
Class
Noisy
Second Chance
Second Rate
States
Texas
Absolutely
Extreme
Less
Favor
Invested
Measures
More Or Less
Overrun
Rash
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Wisdom
Patriotism
Disinterested
Enlightened
Establishment
Policy
Advance
Calculated
Guided
Interests
Liberal
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Nothing can conduce more to the order and stability of a government than the simplicity of the laws, the proper definition of rights, and their impartial and consistent administration.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Administration
Consistent
Order
Rights
Stability
Definition
Impartial
Proper
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Abandon
Battle
Conquer
Conquest
Vain
Now
Act
Aid
Eve
Look
Hand
Present
None
Perish
View
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Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Adopted
Fidelity
Calculated
Diversified
Promote
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Union can achieve everything when sustained by gallant hearts and correct principles, while anarchy and insubordination must fail in the achievement of every thing beneficial and glorious to mankind.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Achieve
Anarchy
Beneficial
Gallant
Glorious
Mankind
Principles
Correct
Fail
Hearts
Union
Sustained
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Friendship
Attraction
Commerce
Eye
Policy
Statesmen
Texas
Advantages
Earliest
Escape
Relations
Superior
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Bear in Mind...that all Histories from the Rock at Plymouth, and Jamestown to the present time, have been made by white men, and a man who tells his own story, is always right until the adversary's tale is told.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Men
Rocks
White
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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 / Former United States Senator
Accomplish
Died
Doubt
Eight
Father
Fourteen
Months
School
Gotten
Nor
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There would be no difficulty in securing the rights of the people and the liberties of Texas if men would march to their duty and not fly like recreants from danger. Texas must be defended and liberty maintained.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Danger
Difficulty
Duty
Rights
Texas
Defended
Fly
Must
Liberties
Maintained
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Army
Deserve
Discipline
Glory
Soldier
Submit
Subordination
Ages
Corrected
Improved
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When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Government
Hands
People
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Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
War
Brother
Husband
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We are poor, feeble, and blind mortals when the eye of the Almighty looks through all worlds and by his power executes all things aright, and by his grace, he makes us all rich in Heavenly Gifts. In distress and in bereavements, we can look only to him. From mortals like ourselves we can derive no help.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
All Things
Almighty
Blind
Distress
Eye
Grace
Heavenly
Looks
Mortals
Poor
Rich
Derive
Feeble
Gifts
Worlds
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Wise
Administration
Commencement
Delicate
Existence
Expected
Imposing
Principles
Prudent
Setting
Texas
Asserted
Based
Complete
Maintained
National
Operation
Task
Universally
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To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country - the young men.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
War
Country
Flower
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Men
Children
Father
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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 / Former United States Senator
Opportunity
Children
Son
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I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Cutting
Heart
Wish
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Wise
Attitude
Faith
Accomplished
Faithful
Independent
Integrity
Legislation
Maintenance
Obligation
Proud
Redemption
Republic
Sovereign
Worthy
Now
Free
Impose
Occupy
Pledged
Wherever
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I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
War
Hands
Hero
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Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
War
Moving
Perseverance
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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. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Ruins
Unions
Wish
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the states, - opposed to taking the power from the hands of the people, - opposed to special monopolies, - opposed to a protective tariff, - opposed to a latitudinal construction of the constitution, - opposed to slavery agitation and disunion. This is my democracy. Point to a single act of my public career not in keeping with these principles.
Sam Houston / Former United States Senator
Careers
Hands
Land
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