Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1196 |
| AUTHOR: | Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (1798–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of Democracy, and while guided and controlled by virtue, the noblest attribute of man. It is the only dictator that freemen acknowledge, and the only security which freemen desire. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | “When a public school was a novelty and the Republic’s treasury and credit were at their lowest, only a daring mind and a champion of enlightened liberty could have conceived the idea for insuring the education of the future Texas generations.”—Philip Graham, The Life and Poems of Mirabeau B. Lamar, p. 53 (1938). |
| SUBJECTS: | Mind |