Tag: Sam Houston
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they’ve been.
Sam Houston
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Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Sam Houston
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
Sam Houston
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
Sam Houston
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Sam Houston
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If everybody is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
Sam Houston
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High expectations are the key to everything.
Sam Houston
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What am I supposed to haul my dogs around in, a Rolls-Royce?
Sam Houston
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Appreciate everything your associates do for the business.
Sam Houston
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We now occupy the proud attitude of a sovereign and independent Republic, which will impose upon us the obligation of evincing to the world that we are worthy to be free. This will only be accomplished by wise legislation, the maintenance of our integrity, and the faithful and just redemption of our plighted faith wherever it has been pledged.
Sam Houston