I Love Texas Too Well To Bring

I Would Lay Down My Life To Defend Any One Of The States From Aggression, Which Endangered Peace Or Threatened Its Institutions. I Could Do More For The Union, But I Wish To Do More; For The Destruction Of The Union Would Be The Destruction Of All The States. A Stab In The Heart Is Worse Then A Cut In A Limb, For This May Be Healed.

I Preferred Measuring Deer Tracks To Tape - That I Liked The Wild Liberty Of The Red Men Better Then The Tyranny Of My Brothers.

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.

I Humble Myself Before God, And There The List Ends.

Let Me Tell You What Is Coming.... Your Fathers And Husbands, Your Sons And Brothers, Will Be Herded At The Point Of The Bayonet... You May, After The Sacrifice Of Countless Millions Of Treasure And Of Thousands Of Lives, As A Bare Possibility, Win Southern Independence...but I Doubt It.