Cincinnatus Roman Quotes & Sayings

Information wants to be free. Believe it. — Bruce Sterling

[On being told Mary, Queen of Scots, was taller than she:] Then she is too high, for I myself am neither too high nor too low. — Elizabeth I

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. — Rick James

Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse, plus terrorist attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't want to belabor these points, but your listeners know what I'm talking about. I think the antidote is to appreciate what we have, enjoy where we live, and make a positive contribution to our communities. My Cracker Pride campaign is balanced by the spirit of Cincinnatus. He was a farmer and Roman general who was twice made dictator. And he had the forbearance to resign as dictator as soon as he had vanquished Rome's enemies. He became a civic ideal for good leadership. That's the spirit I want in my district and in my campaign. - Veda Rabadel, The Tea & Crackers Campaign. — Peter Prasad

I am not trying to say that I am poor and that I don't like beautiful things. But I don't like luxury for luxury sake or in the sense of showing off luxury. — Vladimir Potanin

Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization of Revolutionary officers. That name came from Cincinnatus, the Roman farmer and general. — Bill Dedman

David Lawrence, founder of US News & World Report, warned, Confiscation of wealth may satisfy the vengeful in us. It may sooth a retaliatory spirit. But it is the path of national suicide ... There must always be the reward motive. To many people it is but another way to set goals of human ambition ... When government kills the opportunity to earn, it sounds the death knell of the opportunity to serve. — Jim Powell

There is a long and honorable tradition of citizens in service to their nation that goes back at least as far as Cincinnatus, the Roman citizen who, more than once answered his country's call, then returned to his farm and his family and his work. — Tom Clancy

Have I told you today that you look mighty fetchin' in that outfit? he said as he opened the door for her.
"Only three times," she answered.
"Well, then make it four. — Carolyn Brown