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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

— Sam Houston

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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!

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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