Texans believed that Mexicans and Indians should be cut down like trees of the forest if they got in the way of that survival.
“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”
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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“There are moments in history when men who are not necessarily fools or cowards behave as if they felt themselves conscientious executors named to administer some general heritage of cowardice and folly...”
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