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quotes[0]='I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.'
quotes[1]='Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.'
quotes[2]='The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.'
quotes[3]='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.'
quotes[4]='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.'
quotes[5]='When tyrants ask you to yield one jot of your liberty, and you consent thereto, it is the first link forged in the chain that will eventually hold you in bondage.'
quotes[6]='I and my pupils ate together out of our baskets by the schoolhouse spring. I would go into the woods and cut me a sourwood stick and trim it carefully in spirals. With this emblem of authority in my hands, and with a hunting shirt of flowered calico and a long braid down my back, I had a higher feeling of dignity and self-satisfaction than from any office or honor which I have since held.'
quotes[7]='A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.'
quotes[8]='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.'
quotes[9]='I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.'
quotes[10]='I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand.'
quotes[11]='It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge.'
quotes[12]='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.'
quotes[13]='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.'
quotes[14]='Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of the conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.'






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