Sam Houston
Sam Houston
Samuel "Sam" Houstonwas an American politician and soldier, best known for his role in bringing Texas into the United States as a constituent state. His victory at the Battle of San Jacinto secured the independence of Texas from Mexico in one of the shortest decisive battles in modern history. The only American to be elected governor of two states, Houston was also the only governor within a future Confederate state to oppose secessionand to refuse an oath of allegiance to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 March 1793
CityRockbridge County, VA
CountryUnited States of America
I preferred measuring deer tracks, to tape-that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
After the storm came through, the maintenance came in and busted everybody's apartments open, and I guess they took what they wanted because we didn't have half the stuff that was supposed to be there.
He's just a sophomore, and that's a tough situation with the game on the line and all that. But I was thrilled when he got it. And I told him this is something you can build on. He's gotten through the toughest pressure situation he'll have to face.
I asked him first if it was in his range,
I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.
A victim of the use of water as a beverage.
My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.
Let me tell you what is coming.... Your fathers and husbands, your sons and brothers, will be herded at the point of the bayonet... You may, after the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and of thousands of lives, as a bare possibility, win Southern independence...but I doubt it.
I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and Yorktown. For this reason I predict the civil war which is now at hand will be stubborn and of long duration.
I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
He has all the characteristics of a dog - except loyalty.
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
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.