Bequeathed Quotes

40 quotes by 40 authors

The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition of birth, no… — Theodore Dwight Weld
My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. — William Shakespeare
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through… — James A. Baldwin
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If… — Calvin Coolidge
Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of Lincoln's first and second inaugurals… — Felix Frankfurter
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished… — Tecumseh
Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil. — Douglas Wilson
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists… — C.S. Lewis
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And we… — Jerry A. Coyne
The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is… — Louis Pasteur
We who are living in the west today are fortunate. Freedom has been bequeathed to us. We have not had to carve it out of… — Margaret Thatcher
America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which… — Joe Biden
The cross is not only imposed upon the saints as their burden, but bequeathed unto them as their legacy. It is given unto them as… — Richard Alleine
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency. — Rene Descartes
Iâ€™m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because thatâ€™s what the British bequeathed us — Lee Kuan Yew
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by… — George B. Cortelyou
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads… — Bill Joy

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