Courage Against Overwhelming Odds
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They stood firing until they could stand no longer...156 MEN AGAINST A RAGING ARMY OF 7000!
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Fortress and Shrine: The Alamo's Legacy
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The Mission That Became a Fortress, The Fortress That Became a Shrine
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Pride in Valor Amidst Conflict
Tennesseean:
We sure killed many brave men today.
Thimblerig:
Funny, I was proud of em. Even while I was killing em, I was proud of em. It speaks well for men that so many ain't afraid to die when they think right is on their side. It speaks well.
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Gratitude for Life's Simple Realities
Smitty:
So many times every day you stop and give thanks, but mostly I don't catch on what you're thanking the Lord for. I mean, there's nothing special.
Parson:
I give thanks for the time and for the place.
Smitty:
The time and the place, Parson?
Parson:
The time to live and the place to die. That's all any man gets. No more, no less.
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Skepticism About Leadership in Crisis
Col. Davy Crockett:
Travis says Fannin's coming.
Jim Bowie:
Travis says! I wouldn't take Travis word that night's dark and day's light!
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Tall Tales and Truths of Davy Crockett
Travis man:
Hey, Davy! Is it true that you and Mike Fink fought a three day fight on the Mississippi?
Davy Crockett: [laughs and rides off]
That's just an example of the tall tales folks tell about me! Me and Mike fought all right, but we quit at dark. It wouldn't of been the third day until the next morning!
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Building a Fort for Strategic Reasons
Bowies man:
What are we doing here. I volunteered to fight, not build no fort. Why are we building a fort?
Col. Bowie:
Because Houston told Travis, and Travis told m, and I'm tellin you.
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A Candid Exchange About Jim Bowie
Gen. Sam Houston:
Where's Jim Bowie?
Capt. James Butler Bonham:
He's indisposed, sir.
Gen. Sam Houston:
Indisposed? By God if you mean drunk, you say drunk, sir!
Capt. James Butler Bonham:
He's drunk, sir!
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Hope for Texas' Remembrance
Gen. Sam Houston:
I hope they remember. I hope Texas remembers.
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Trust in Adversity
Gen. Sam Houston:
Travis, I've never been able to like you. But you are one of the very few men I would trust with the life of Texas.
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Critique of Leadership in Conflict Situations
Jim Bowie:
I'd hate to say anything good about that long-winded jackanapes, but he does know the short way to start a war.
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The Importance of Living with Purpose
Davy Crockett:
I'm gonna tell you something, Flaca, and I want you to listen tight. May sound like I'm talkin about me. But I'm not. I'm talkin about you. As a matter of fact, I'm talkin about all people everywhere. When I come down here to Texas, I was lookin for somethin'. I didn't know what. Seems like you added up my life and I spent it all either stompin other men or, in some cases, gettin stomped. Had me some money and had me some medals. But none of it seemed a lifetime worth of the pain of the mother that bore me. It was like I was empty. Well, I'm not empty anymore. That's what's important, to feel useful in this old world, to hit a lick against what's wrong, or to say a word for what's right even though you get walloped for saying that word. Now I may sound like a Bible beater yelling up a revival at a river crossing camp meeting, but that don't change the truth none. There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.
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The Emotional Resonance of "Republic
Davy Crockett:
Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic is one of those words that makes me tight in the throat - the same tightness a man gets when his baby takes his first step or his first baby shaves and makes his first sound as a man. Some words can give you a feeling that makes your heart warm. Republic is one of those words.
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