Contingency Quote by Ulysses S. Grant

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

But the challenge is always the same whether each generation facing its own circumstances can summon the practical devotion to attain and retain that…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

— Joshua Wong

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

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing…

— Jackson Browne

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

— Nick Nolte

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

— Margaret Oliphant

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

— Walter Rauschenbusch