Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition,…

— C.S. Lewis

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

— Margaret Oliphant

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner…

— Alberto Moravia

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…

— Hannah Arendt

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed…

— Anonymous

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and…

— Thomas Carlyle

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

— Marilyn Ferguson

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which…

— Saint Augustine

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

— Thomas Jefferson