Quotes by Generations Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness. Thomas Jefferson generationsgovernmentbelieve There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat. Timothy Garton Ash graduatesgenerationsclass 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 majoritygenerationscountry I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another. Thomas Jefferson generationsindependentlaw Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last. Tinie Tempah generationslasts I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it. Todd Rokita worriedgenerationslittles My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. Todd Tiahrt small-businesskansasgenerations I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations. Tom Allen generationssupportland A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility Tom Brokaw generationsresponsibilitywar It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. Tom Brokaw glowinggenerationsbelieve The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. Tom Brokaw greatest-generationgenerationsbook I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? Tom Clancy generationswatchespeople One generation cannot bind another. Thomas Jefferson generations A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. Tom Glazer generationspurposemind But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did. Tom DeLonge generationsguyidols Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation. Tom Lantos generationsinformationpolitical The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of IU families are opting not to go to here because they perceive the quality of IU is going down. Tom Reilly generationsqualityperception It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out. Tom Hiddleston generationslosswar The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence. Thomas Jefferson generationslandmen This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. Tom T. Hall this-generationgenerationskids«7879808182838485868788»
