"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."

Friendship, Friends, Lady, Man, May

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"Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman."

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"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."

Love, Constitution, Name

"A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under."

Leadership, Leader, People

"I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone."

Rights,

"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."

Man, Men, Class, Extreme, States

"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."

Thought, Man, Posterity, Reputation

"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."

Living,

"Whether his policy was right or wrong, he built up the glory of the nation."

Policy, Glory, Nation, Right

"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

Education, Government, Knowledge, Benefits

"I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time."

Time, Father, Doubt, Months

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

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"Men are only as great as they are kind."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Friendship, Men

"Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer."

Elbert Hubbard, American Writer

Friendship, Help, Word

"Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Friendship, Love, Truth, First

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

Friendship, Sympathy, Soul, Concern, Giving

"I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

Friendship, Government, Friend

"A friend to all is a friend to none."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Friendship, Friend

"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

Friendship, Men, Friends, World

"The only way to have a friend is to be one."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Friendship, Friend

"Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty."

Stephen King, American Author

Friendship, Truth, Lie, Duty, Enemies

"Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it."

Warren Buffett, American Businessman

Friendship, Friend, Enemy, Folly, Profit