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 they could defend themselves from the local natives. Four years later,
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