Sam Houston Quotes

“may have conquered Santa Anna,” Nancy Lea was fond of telling him, “but you will never conquer me.”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“The same station in life, one should note, in which the youthful Houston had stood in relation to Andrew Jackson. One of the most remarkable but least remarked on facts of Sam Houston’s life is that he habitually collected about him young protégés and informal wards, even as Jackson had done.”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“in sum, he had been satisfied reading Homer’s Odyssey instead of setting off to create his own?”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“But although the young Houston could secret himself away for hours enraptured by the classics, in a classroom he remained, from all indications, terrible.”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“I have no hope for Sam,” he sighed. “He is so wild.”5”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“It was his fifth son and namesake, Sam, thirteen at the time of his father’s death, who could lose himself in the shelves of books even to the detriment of his formal education.”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“The Virginians of the mountains, and of the broad valley of the Shenandoah River just beyond, were a different breed.”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston

“Bear in mind,” he once wrote a correspondent, “that all Histories from the Rock of 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”
― James L. Haley, Sam Houston