Sam Houston Quotes

For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.

Sam Houston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: politician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 2, 1793 - July 26, 1863

Topics

WiseMeTexasPoliticalBodyWill

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

Jennifer Doudna

ResearchWorldDesireUnderstand

Drama is not hard for me. It just didn't seem hard.

Jenna Elfman

MeDramaHardSeemJust

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

John Dalberg-Acton

HistorySoulMemoryBurden

It turns out that there is nothing so 'ex' as an ex-politician, especially a defeated one. Your phone goes dead.

Michael Ignatieff

PhoneNothingDefeatedDeadOut

President Obama likes to say Guantanamo Bay is a terrorist recruiting tool, and while that may be an easy excuse, it's simply not true. The reality is the motivations of radical Islamic jihadism existed before Guantanamo Bay. The ideology is premised on a narrative of conquest, in the spiritual as well as the earthly world.

Tom Cotton

SpiritualWorldRealityEasyTrue

My mother still has a three-step system to eating candy corn. First she eats the white tip, then the orange middle, then the yellow end. She swears each segment tastes different.

Rosecrans Baldwin

MotherYellowEatingEndWhiteShe

Simply to have peace brings huge investment.

Juan Manuel Santos

PeaceInvestmentSimplyBringsHuge

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

NatureDeepTreesDownHeightOak

I get so many people coming up to me being like, Aahhh! And I'm like, what the hell? I'm just me!

Jorja Smith

PeopleMeHellComingUpGet

Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.

Diego Luna

TimeWarPeopleWishReactI Wish

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

Ali Larter

LifeMyselfDayEndPushMy Life

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Wolfgang Schauble

PoliticsCompetitionYouKnowSenior

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