A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
Sam HoustonThe benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam HoustonTexas, 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.
Sam HoustonWe view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: none is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope! Rally to the standard, and be no longer the scoff of mercenary tongues! Be men, be free men, that your children may bless their father's name.
Sam Houston