Accurate Quote by Noam Chomsky

“Mexico surrendered. There were calls among Americans to take all of Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed February 1848, just took half. The…

— Howard Zinn

I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in…

— Philipp Meyer

There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San…

— Phil Collins

Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

Texas Gov. Rick Perry referred to the Mexican city of Juarez as the most dangerous city in America. In his defense, he probably just…

— Jay Leno

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime.…

— Hermann Goring

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

— Norman Spinrad

“The dismemberment began in Texas, called Tejas back then. There, slavery had been outlawed. Sam Houston led the invasion that reestablished it. Houston and…

— Eduardo Galeano

There are two ways that you can gain territory from another group. One is by conquest. That's essentially the way we took California from…

— Eugene McCarthy

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

— John Steinbeck

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed…

— Stephen Ambrose

I read "The Conquest of New Spain" by Bernal Diz Del Castillo, which I recommend to a lot of people. He was an eyewitness…

— Laila Lalami