Successor Quotes
71 quotes by 63 authors
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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason…
— George W. Bush
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I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former…
— George W. Bush
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I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people…
— George W. Bush
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Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.
— Tony Campolo
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Like many Americans, I've always been intrigued by Bill Clinton. I obviously didn't always agree with him - enjoyed running against his legacy in 2000,…
— Dick Cheney
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I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has…
— Bill Gates
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of…
— William Henry Chamberlin
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Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the…
— Lord Byron
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No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully…
— Chester A. Arthur
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I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
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The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they…
— Denis Diderot
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I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name Christopher Hitchens.
— Gore Vidal
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The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.
— Roberto Calasso
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To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end…
— Bryan Magee
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Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of…
— Margaret Visser
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A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any…
— Alice Stone Blackwell
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Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as…
— Vincent Price
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I am now being criticized (by the opposition) for being irresponsible for saying `I will not raise the consumption tax rate while I am in…
— Junichiro Koizumi
Who Wrote These Successor Quotes
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