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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.
One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.
Every generation is equidistant from God.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.