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

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 love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

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

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.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

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