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

Sam Houston quotes (American General, Lawyer and Politician, 1st president of Texas, (1836-38, 1841-44), 1793-1863)

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“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.”

Sam Houston quotes (American General, Lawyer and Politician, 1st president of Texas, (1836-38, 1841-44), 1793-1863)

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“There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.”

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“Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.”

Alistair Cooke quotes (American journalist and commentator, b.1908)

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“The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?”

P. J. O'Rourke quotes (American political commentator,Journalist, Writer and Humorist, b.1947)

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“Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word. And there's an opening convey of generalities. A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.”

John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)

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“Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."”

George W. Bush quotes (American 43rd US President since 2001. b.1946)

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“Give me an army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win the war.”

General George S. Patton quotes (American General in World War I and II, 1885-1945)

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“Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.”

John Steinbeck quotes (American Novelist and Writer, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968)

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“In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”

Sam Houston quotes (American General, Lawyer and Politician, 1st president of Texas, (1836-38, 1841-44), 1793-1863)

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“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.”

Sam Houston quotes (American General, Lawyer and Politician, 1st president of Texas, (1836-38, 1841-44), 1793-1863)

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