Do right and risk the consequences.

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

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression ... it is a ... sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government, and create another in its stead.

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.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

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