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Generations Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to…
- I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
- I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . .…
- No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
- No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
- The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that…
- It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars…
- We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind…
- I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's…
- The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be…
- Every generation needs a new revolution.
- I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We…
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