Do Right And Risk The Consequences.

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.

I Love Texas Too Well To Bring Civil Strife And Bloodshed Upon Her.

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.

Texas Has Yet To Learn Submission To Any Oppression, Come From What Source It May.

Bear In Mind...that All Histories From The Rock At Plymouth, And Jamestown To The Present Time, Have Been Made By White Men, And A Man Who Tells His Own Story, Is Always Right Until The Adversary's Tale Is Told.