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Sam Houston

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

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

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Donna Grant

"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire."

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Donna Grant

"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"

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Donna Grant

"In a constructive policy, there is 'adjust everywhere' and in a destructive policy, there is a policy of disadjustment."

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Donna Grant

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil."

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Donna Grant

"The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers."

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Donna Grant

"Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered."

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Donna Grant

"Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice."

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Donna Grant

"The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing."

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Donna Grant

"Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender."

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Donna Grant

"Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not."

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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."
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"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."
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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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"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
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"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."
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"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."
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"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."
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