Best Their Ancestors Quotes
40 Their Ancestors quotes by 38 unique authors
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Some people don't mind a little constitutional sophistry in a good cause; and for liberals, centralizing all power in the federal government is always a…
— Joseph Sobran
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Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the…
— John Hench
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Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society…
— Walter Lippmann
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HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none…
— Alice Walker
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In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their…
— Samuel Adams
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You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a…
— Henry Louis Gates
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The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead…
— Thomas Sowell
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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
— Douglas Adams
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
— Abigail Adams
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But because their ancestors were men of righteousness, shall we consent to the abuses of their degenerate descendants? Because they did us a great good,…
— Jose Rizal
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So long as procreation stems from parents of the same race, appearance and lineage are typically congruent. Interracial unions give rise to added complexity. Interracial…
— Randall Kennedy
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Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let…
— Wilfrid Laurier
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look…
— Edmund Burke
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Why is it easier for some people to believe their ancestors were a clump of mud and a cannibalized body part, than apes?
— Rock Cowles
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