"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."

Nation, Country, Nations, Will

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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."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

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"Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat!"

Harry Pollitt, British Politician

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Explore more quotes by Sam Houston

"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."

Love

"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."

Friendship

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

Rights

"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."

Thought

"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."

Policy

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

Education

"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."

Man

"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."

Living

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

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

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