"Each generation exercises power over its successors: and……" — C.S. Lewis

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• The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That… — Theodore Dwight Weld
• My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors. — William Shakespeare
• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and… — James A. Baldwin
• Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for… — Samuel Adams
• We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our… — Calvin Coolidge
• Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of… — Felix Frankfurter
• When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon
• Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of… — Tecumseh
• Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil. — Douglas Wilson
• Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that… — Jerry A. Coyne
• The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The… — Louis Pasteur

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