Famous Quotes / Lazarus Long
Lazarus Long: "No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. Roman matrons used to say to their sons: "Come back with your shield, or on it." Later on, this custom declined. So did Rome."
Back | Conscript | Custom | Declined |
Inherent | Later | Long | Matrons |
Right | Roman | Rome | Shield |
Sons | State | Survive | Through |
Troops | Used | Your |