Their Descendants Quotes

21 Their Descendants quotes by 19 unique authors

The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,… — George Washington
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled,… — Thomas Paine
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of… — Grover Cleveland
The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in… — Richard Allen
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer… — Unknown Author
Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind. — Plato
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They… — Winston Churchill
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. — Sallust
Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure,… — Edward Robert Harrison
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in… — King Hussein I
If the American people don't love me, their descendants will. — Lyndon B. Johnson
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
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The millions of human beings who were shot, tortured, starved, treated like animals and made the object of a conspiracy of ridicule, can sleep in… — Raoul Vaneigem
The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of… — Cory Doctorow
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… — Nikolai Gogol
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful,… — Charles Dickens
I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman,… — Charles Dickens
It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What… — Unknown Author

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