Why Texas is Texas QOTD

"I humble myself before God and there the list ends."             

                                             ~  Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee, leader in the Texas Revolution, first and third President of the Republic of Texas, US Senator, and Governor of the State of Texas 

 The image is a Matthew Brady daguerreotype in the Library of Congress, taken while Houston was serving as US Senator, representing the new State of Texas following annexation.