I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.