It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. — Sallust Copy Share Image
The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution',… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Six decades ago, as Mao's Communists seized power, the question in Washington was, 'Who lost China?' Now, as his capitalist descendants stand… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We, at least, are not loyal men: we confess to having more respect and honour for the raggedest child of the poorest… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from… — Michael Johnson Copy Share Image
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest among the descendants of Holocaust victims in getting back artworks that were looted by the Nazis,… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington Copy Share Image
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