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1793–1863 United States
Samuel "Sam" Houston (2 March 1793 – 26 July 1863) was an American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United States as a constituent state. His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from Mexico.
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Fellow citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath.
Sam Houston (2004)
Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
There is a proud undying thought in man,
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
I tell you that, while I believe with you in the doctrine of states rights, the North is determined to preserve this Union.
Sam Houston (2004)
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.
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.
Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.
Sam Houston (2004)
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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