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

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Do right and risk the consequences.

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

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

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.

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.

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

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

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.

If you wanted to rip my clothes off, you should have asked." (Jace Wayland)

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me.

There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.

Why did the mushroom go to the party? Because he's a fungi!

However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.

Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

Things you grew up watching, they just stay with you. They form what you like to do.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.