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• The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be… — George Washington
• This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither… — Thomas Paine
• It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing… — Grover Cleveland
• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one… — 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… — Richard Allen
• The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors… — Unknown Author
• Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from… — Plato
• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from… — 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… — 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… — 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… — King Hussein I

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