Sam Houston quote needed--Texas and James Bond

[William Salmon]

Since the subject is Texas, sort of, here is a fun line from an unlikely
source:

"...good Americans were fine people, and most of them seemed to come
from Texas".

--James Bond, in Casino Royale



Quoting Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>:

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> Google Books shows:
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> "Texas, with peace, could exist without the United States, but the
> United States can not, without great hazard to the security of their
> institutions, exist without Texas."  In Houston's letter to General
> Andrew Jackson, written at Washington[-on-the-Brazos], Texas,
> February 16, 1844.
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>> From _Life and Select Literary Remains of Sam Houston of Texas_, ed.
>> William Carey Crane (1884), 370.
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> --Charlie
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>> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 01:50:16 EST
>> From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
>> Subject: Sam Houston quote needed; Anonymous internet "Texas Blessing"
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>> Any help with this quotation (not in YBQ):
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>> "Texas could exist without the United States, but the United States
>> cannot, except at very great  hazard, exist without Texas." - Sam
>> Houston
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~Will Salmon

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