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Generations Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from…
- The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
- Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can…
- Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all…
- The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the…
- Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
- May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have…
- A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
- The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
More Generations Quotes
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,… — Christian Bale
- In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Beck
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison