David Crockett! James Bowie! Barret Travis! The names were a host in themselves; one and all refused to couple them with retreat.
"Military defeats may be moral victories, young man," said Crockett to Thomas Worth; "and moral victories make national greatness.

The Roman that filled the gulf with his own body--the men who died at Thermopylae--they live to-day, and they have been talking with us." "But if you join Houston you will save many lives." "That isn't always the point, sir.

Jim Bowie was saying there was once a lover who used to swim two miles every night to see a young woman called Hero.

Now, he might have waited for a boat and gone dry-shod to his sweetheart; but if he had, who would have cared whether he lived or died?
The Alamo is our Hero.

If we can't keep her, we can die for her." The same spirit moved every soul at Goliad.