Former Ages Quotes
- The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. — John Quincy Adams
- Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as… — Hannah Arendt
- The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up… — Charles Lyell