Texas Has Yet To Learn Submission To

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.

When A Government Has Ceased To Protect The Lives, Liberty, And Property Of The People ... And ... Becomes An Instrument In The Hands Of Evil Rulers For Their Oppression ... It Is A ... Sacred Obligation To Their Posterity To Abolish Such Government, And Create Another In Its Stead.

He Has All The Characteristics Of A Dog - Except Loyalty.

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.

Texas Can Make It Without The United States, But The United States Cannot Make It Without Texas