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

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Do right and risk the consequences.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

If you torture statistics long enough, they'll eventually confess the truth

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.

I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.

The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

Islam is politics or it is nothing.

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.