[Joe Brower]

Kewl. I'm adding them to the next revision of the doc right now.

[Servant of the Nine]

"Molon labe!"
"Come and Take It"

BATTLE OF GONZALES
When Domingo de Ugartechea,qv military commander in Texas, received word that the American colonists of Gonzales refused to surrender a small cannon that had been given that settlement in 1831 as a defense against the Indians, he dispatched Francisco de Castañedaqv and 100 dragoons to retrieve it.

Texas Militiamen, fought off the Mexican Dragoons under a flag showing a cannon and the words "Come and Take It".

It was the first flag of Texas and the flag Robert A. Heinlein used for his rebels in the novel "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

[archy]

Kewl. I'm adding them to the next revision of the doc right now. One I missed, I believe, and certainly bears inclusion- and is worth repeating if I did include it with the others:

"If the stars and stripes become the standard of a tyrannical majority, the ensign of a violated league, it will no longer command our love or respect but will command our best efforts to drive it from the State."

-- General Patrick Cleburne

I'll have one for you from T.E. Lawrence [*of Arabia*] worth adding in a couple of days, as well, but I want to check my references for his exact words first. He was precise enough in the way he used language as to deserve getting it spot-on.

-archy-/-