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