70 Quotes by Sam Houston

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.

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 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.

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

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.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

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.