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"Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may."
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"She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity."
"I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been."
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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."
"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 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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