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

— Sam Houston Attributed

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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,
That bids his soul still upward look
To fame's proud cliff!

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)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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