Age Quote by John Taylor of Caroline

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they…

— Jonathan Swift

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The…

— Victor Hugo

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The younger generation forms a country of its own.”

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“In contemporary societies, by contrast, old age and infirmity have gone from being a shared, multigenerational responsibility to a more or less private state—”

— Atul Gawande

This generations success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other & to their countrys future.

— Barack Obama

“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Past and Present have different customs; new and old adopt different measures. To try to use the ways of a generous and lenient government…

— Han Fei

“generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will…

— Timothy Snyder

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state. In youth we require something of the tardiness and…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

— Gerald Brenan