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Letter "S" » Sam Houston Quotes
«A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.»
«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.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
aggression, aggressions, defend, destruction, endanger, endangered, endangers, institutions, lay, lay down, the union, threatened, union
«The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Education,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
benefits, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, preservation
«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»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
conquer, government of the United, government of the United States, go to war, guns, powder, powdered, powders, secede, seceded, set up, starve, starves, States, state of war, steel, steels, The Men, the union, the United States, union, united, United States, United States government, whip, whipping
«Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.»
«A manufacture of bologna sausage accused a man whom he had discharged of spreading a report that the manufacturer's sausage was made of dog meat.The accused man protested: I never said any such thing, but I will tell you what I did say. I said that w»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
accused, bologna, Bologna sausage, discharged, discharges, discharging, manufacture, manufactured, manufacturer, manufacturers, manufactures, Manufacturing, meat, protested, protesting, report, sausage, sausages, spreading, The Accused
«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.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
advantages, compare, globe, globes, Globe and, lift, Texas, The Globe
«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.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Reputation
| Keywords:
posterity, transmit, transmits, transmitting
«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»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| About:
Education
| Keywords:
classical, Classical education, defective, defectives, if not, inconvenience, inconvenienced, misfortune, receiving, the Classical
«Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation.»
Author: Sam Houston
(General, Lawyer, Politician)
| Keywords:
built up, policy, Right or Wrong, The Nation
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