"Witness the land and sea enriching with prodigal hand the tranquil South."

🎨 James Owen Mahoney Jr, South Texas, 1936

"We cannot escape the fact that our civilization was built, and still depends, upon the quality rather than the equality of men. Progress and quality are inseparable. That is the law of life which man cannot change. Where there is quality in life, it surges forward. It was the quality of man that gave him leadership on earth, dominance over the sheer strength of ape and tiger. It was the quality of the Greeks that defeated the Persian host at Marathon. It was the quality of the Christian religion that carried it over the western world against what seemed overwhelming opposition. It was the quality of our American forebears that subdued a wilderness and won independence from a stronger power. For Americans, the doctrine of universal equality is death."

📜 Charles Lindbergh, Of Flight And Life, 1948