Generations Quote by Thomas Jefferson Download Open image “One generation cannot bind another.” — Thomas Jefferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations
A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Whatever the one generation may learn from the other, that which is genuinely human no generation learns from the foregoing...Thus no generation has learned… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation. — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The generation that cannot be changed by the world is the generation that will change the world. — Ron Luce Copy Share Image
If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.” — Sharanya Haridas Copy Share Image
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Perceiving the order of nature to be that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue, I am willing to hope it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image