Age Quote by Thomas Paine

“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in…

— Thomas Paine

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

— Thomas Paine

“(To the newly graduated) There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any…

— Thomas Paine

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

— Thomas Paine

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

“But reflecting persons perceived that when society is itself the tyrant—society collectively, over the separate individuals who compose it—its means of tyrannizing are not…

— John Stuart Mill

“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

“. . . a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea of continuity,…

— Edmund Burke

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been…

— Bob Avakian

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do.…

— Aldous Huxley