His Forefathers Quotes
- A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers. — Samuel Butler
- The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in… — H. L. Mencken
- Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
- A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers. — Benjamin Disraeli
- On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the forested hills and… — Immanuel Velikovsky