Generations Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

— Margaret Thatcher

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

— Faith Baldwin

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

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

But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both…

— John Taylor of Caroline

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

Self government is our right, a thing born to us at birth a thing no more to be doled out to us by another…

— Roger Casement

It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who…

— Ulysses S. Grant

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

— Margaret Oliphant

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

— Erica Jong