Tag: Sam Houston
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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.
Sam Houston
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Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise. They’re absolutely free and worth a fortune.
Sam Houston
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
Sam Houston
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You’ve got to give folks responsibility, you’ve got to trust them, and then you’ve got to check on them.
Sam Houston
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We’re all working together; that’s the secret.
Sam Houston
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
Sam Houston
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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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All that hullabaloo about somebody’s net worth is just stupid, and it’s made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
Sam Houston
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Most of us don’t invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Sam Houston
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All of us profit from being corrected – if we’re corrected in a positive way.
Sam Houston