I Would Give No Thought Of What

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.

My God, Is It Possible That All The People Have Gone Mad? The Civil War Now Being Inaugurated Will Be As Horrible As His Satanic Majesty Could Desire.

I Preferred Measuring Deer Tracks To Tape - That I Liked The Wild Liberty Of The Red Men Better Then The Tyranny Of My Brothers.

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.

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.