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)
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)
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)