Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
I formed, in early life, two purposes to which I have inflexibly adhered, under some very strong pressure from warm personal friends. They were,… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am the most habitual… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The very first act of the Confederate Government was to send commissioners to Washington to make terms of peace, and to establish relations of… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
When a nation has just emerged from the throes of a great civil warfare, where section was arrayed against section, class against class, two… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Copy Share Image
