Quote by Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other. – Thomas Jefferson

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson

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War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses. – Thomas Jefferson

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A father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit

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Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. – Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972

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Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson

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First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children. – Milton Greenblatt

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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. – B.C. Forbes

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The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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