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

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.

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

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

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.

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.