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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 Sam Houston (2004)

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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)

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.

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