"As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"

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Source : John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto II”

John Trumbull

#Trust Quotes #Rights Quotes #Ties Quotes

“I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.”
“I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.”
“America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.”

Source : Faith Popcorn (1991). “The Popcorn Report: Faith Popcorn on the Future of Your Company, Your World, Your Life”, p.13, BookBaby
“The mutual fund industry has been built, in a sense, on witchcraft.”

Source : John C. Bogle (2010). “Common Sense on Mutual Funds”, p.440, John Wiley & Sons
“I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.”
“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.”
“I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.”
“What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.”

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