I Would Give No Thought

Govern Wisely, And As Little As Possible

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.

I Have Ever Been Opposed To Banks, - Opposed To Internal Improvements By The General Government, - Opposed To Distribution Of Public Lands Among The States, - Opposed To Taking The Power From The Hands Of The People, - Opposed To Special Monopolies, - Opposed To A Protective Tariff, - Opposed To A Latitudinal Construction Of The Constitution, - Opposed To Slavery Agitation And Disunion. This Is My Democracy. Point To A Single Act Of My Public Career Not In Keeping With These Principles.

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.

Texas, To Be Respected Must Be Polite. Santa Anna Living, Can Be Of Incalculable Benefit To Texas; Santa Anna Dead, Would Just Be Another Dead Mexican.