"The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave."

--

Source : Looking Backward, 2000 - 1887 ch. 9 (1888)

Edward Bellamy

#Citizens Quotes #Maintenance Quotes #Guarantees Quotes

“I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.”
“Whatever you do....don't fall asleep.”
“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”
“The main aim is to up my game at every possible turn without compromise.”
“A great goal in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
“According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.”
“Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill suit the wishes or the policy of another. The constitution is not subject to such fluctuations. It is to have a fixed, uniform, permanent construction. It should be, so far at least as human infirmity will allow, not dependent upon the passions or parties of particular times, but the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever.”

Source : Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.303
“The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.”

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