"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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"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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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

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"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

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"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."

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"In prison it must be made rich Library, people must educate their self there. Not to go stupid and more."

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

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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."

Living

"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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"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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"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."

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"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."

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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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