Deserve Quote by Elizabeth Janeway

Every country has the government it deserves.

— Joseph de Maistre

History should be about every generation's will to power.

— Cody Wilson

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

— Herbert Hoover

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to…

— Thomas Jefferson

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in…

— Robert Kennedy

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

— Margaret MacMillan

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

— Herbert Hoover

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery,…

— Anonymous

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

— Abba Eban

“Going beyond “Every nation in my generation” to “Every Generation in my nation”

— Tan Seow How