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Top 20 Sam Houston Quotes (2025 Update)

Sam Houston Quote: “Do right and risk the consequences.”

1. “Do right and risk the consequences.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas.”

2. “Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.”

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!”

4. “Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.”

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “He has all the characteristics of a dog – except loyalty.”

6. “He has all the characteristics of a dog – except loyalty.”

— Sam Houston

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

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”

8. “I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.”

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.”

10. “My God, is it possible that all the people have gone mad? The civil war now being inaugurated will be as horrible as his Satanic Majesty could desire.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “Govern wisely, and as little as possible.”

11. “Govern wisely, and as little as possible.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “A victim of the use of water as a beverage.”

12. “A victim of the use of water as a beverage.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Sam Houston Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Sam Houston Quote: “I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.”

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “Texas, 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.”

16. “Texas, 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 Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.”

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Sam Houston Quote: “I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape – that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.”

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

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.”

20. “I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.”

— Sam Houston

Sam Houston Quote: “Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.”

21. “Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.”

— Sam Houston

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