“The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.”

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

We can’t abolish prejudice through laws.

I know we can’t abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

If nations could only depend upon fair and impartial judgments in a world court of law, they would abandon the senseless, savage practice of war.

Reforms are slow, but they never go backward.

Men always say, “Let’s see what you can do.” If we always talk and never work we will not accomplish anything.

No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

I’M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

Never before in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged – and yet so empty.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.