"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid……" — Plato

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• Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too. — Travis Barker
• The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)… — George Washington
• This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of… — Thomas Paine
• A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the… — Bob Dole
• A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that… — Truman G. Madsen
• Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or… — Edward Alsworth Ross
• If anybody wants to believe they're the descendants of a primate, they're welcome to do it. — Mike Huckabee
• It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the… — Grover Cleveland
• The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was… — Samuel Eliot Morison
• All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted — Herman Bavinck
• The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or… — E. O. Wilson

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