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

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

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

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.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

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

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.