Frank Thompson Quotes

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.

I did go to the Alamo. Fascinating. A lot of details and nuances to the Alamo that are impressive.

There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and the sacrifices of those who made Texas independence a reality.

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

The story of the Alamo has touched many more people than one would think. So, I would like to pay my respects to those men on both sides of the walls in those months of February and March 1836.

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican.

I'm a 10th-generation Texan. My ancestor - Andrew Kent - fought at the Alamo.

What if they had to wait seven days to get their rifles to come to the Alamo and fight?

Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.

I have seen the film The Alamo and right now I feel like I've got Davy Crockett behind me. Sometimes I feel like I could put my head in a bucket of water

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.

History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Like mold on books, grow myths on history.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

History is only a value of relation.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.