Sam Houston citáty

Sam Houston, plným menom Samuel Houston, bol americký štátnik, politik a generál. Je jednou z kľúčových osobností histórie štátu Texas. Jeho meno nesie Houston, štvrté najväčšie mesto Spojených štátov. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. marec 1793 – 26. júl 1863
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Sam Houston: Citáty v angličtine

“Fellow citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath.”

As quoted in Sam Houston (2004), by James Haley, University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 390–91
1860s
Kontext: Fellow citizens, in the name of your rights and liberties, which I believe have been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the nationality of Texas, which has been betrayed by the Convention, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of the Constitution of Texas, I refuse to take this oath. In the name of my own conscience and manhood, which this Convention would degrade by dragging me before it, to pander to the malice of my enemies, I refuse to take this oath. I deny the power of this Convention to speak for Texas.... I protest.... against all the acts and doings of this convention and I declare them null and void

“Texas will again lift its head and stand among the nations. it ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.”

As quoted in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum http://www.shsu.edu/~smm_www/History/quotes.shtml.

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

As quoted in the Sam Houston Memorial Museum http://www.shsu.edu/~smm_www/History/quotes.shtml.

“Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.”

As quoted in "Revering Sam Houston, anti-Confederate patriot" http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2016/03/sam-houston.html (18 March 2016), by Michael Zak, Grand Old Partisan
1860s