"To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths."

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The men of Texas deserved much credit, but more was due the women. Armed men facing a foe could not but be brave; but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, faced danger and death with unflinching courage.

— Thomas Jefferson Rusk