The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

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.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

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.