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.

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

To secede from the Union and set up another government would cause war. If you go to war with the United States, you will never conquer her, as she has the money and the men. If she does not whip you by guns, powder, and steel, she will starve you to death. It will take the flower of the country - the young men.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

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 humble myself before God, and there the list ends.