Sam Houston Quotes
I beseech those whose piety will permit them reverently to petition, that they will pray for this union, and ask that He who buildeth up and pulleth down nations will, the mercy preserve and unite us. For a Nation divided against itself cannot stand. I wish, if this Union must be dissolved, that its ruins may be the monument of my grave, and the graves of my family. I wish no epitaph to be written to tell that I survive the ruin of this glorious Union.
United States, Congress. Congressional Globe. 31st Congress, 1st Session, Appendix, 8 Feb. 1850, p. 97.
He persuaded many other rulers to join the Indian Union when India became Independent.
In the rest of the Islamic world, the call to prayer was said in Arabic regardless of the national language. This reform was castigated by throughout the Islamic world who wanted Arabic to be the only language for Muslim religious communications. This was not unlike the insistence that they Catholic Church had maintained that all scripture was read in Latin and would not allow Bibles or mass to be said in any other language.
The “mystic chords of memory” which is one of the most famous Lincoln phrases. As great as this address was, it did not succeed in its purpose of maintaining the Union and preventing secession.
The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office refused to grant a trademark on the grounds that it was "scandalous" and "shocking."
Samuel Houston was an American general. He was an important leader of the Texas Revolution, Houston served as the first and third president of the Republic of Texas, and was one of the first two individuals to represent Texas in the United States Senate. He also served as the sixth governor of Tennessee and the seventh governor of Texas, the only American to be elected governor of two different states in the United States.
