Sam Houston Quotes

… lustre of our country.

I am grateful to have played a small role in the conversations that have helped guide this extraordinary nation's destiny.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Men may be popular without being ambitious, but there is hardly an ambitious man who does not try to be popular.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

Fame overcomes everything.

It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

Probably the most effective legislator we've ever had.

A lot of people think being at the top means you have to be the best at a certain game. You don't. It's more about personality.

Fame gives you a high.

I don't think you can lead a nation if you don't have a definition of the nation. We have to define, as Democrats, what a nation is and embrace the entire nation.

The more records you put up, the longer they talk about you.

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

Reputation is the road to power

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth.

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.

I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.

We are all here now and we have to solve our differences and live together as Australians... I will use the title you have honoured me with to bring the Australian people together... Together we can build a remarkable country, the envy of the rest of the world.

I'm proud of our country that we elected Barack Obama. I mean, it says something about us nationally. You know, it's kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of your checker board. Here's another thing that says America's special: Barack Obama, president of the United States.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill.

You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.