William H. Wharton famous quotes

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.
-- William H. Wharton

#Land #Government #Suffering

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?
-- William H. Wharton

#Law #Possibility #Property

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.
-- William H. Wharton

#Texas #Mexican #Dread

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
-- William H. Wharton

#Insecure #Government #Self

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.
-- William H. Wharton

#Texas #Government #Confusion

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?
-- William H. Wharton

#Perseverance #Land #Able

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.
-- William H. Wharton

#Taken #Government #Land

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.
-- William H. Wharton

#Ties #People #Together

Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

I have feelings that are to the right, and I have feelings that land on the left side of the aisle. The thing is if you have 10 views that land you on the left side of the aisle and two views that land you on the right side of the aisle, then people just put you on the right side of the aisle. I'm not sure why.

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.