I may not have been born in Texas, but after living in the state for just shy of 21 years, through all of my years in schooling, I consider myself a Texan. And if you don’t know, there’s a famous saying in the state that comes from a flag used in the Texas Revolution: “Come and take it.” The saying dates back to Spartan King Leonidus I, who supposedly mocked the Persian army with the ancient equivalent of the phrase — “Molon labe” — at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Texas adopted the slogan after American colonists refused to return a cannon to Mexico that was given to them in 1831 so…
