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- As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- We came to America, either ourselves or in the persons of our ancestors, to better the ideals of men, to make them… — Woodrow Wilson
- Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to… — Moliere
- Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. — Plutarch
- Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day
- Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. — Walter Lippmann
- It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. — Charles Dudley Warner
- In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of… — Richard Dawkins
- By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another,… — Thomas Jefferson
- Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to… — Lionel Tiger