Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Armed 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Any 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Able 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.… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Another 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Am 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Act 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Action 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Affairs 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… — Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II Acceptance Copy Share Image