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Generations Quotes - Page 7

It is war that wastes a nations wealth, chokes its industries, kills its flower, narrows its sympathies, condemns it to be governed by adventurers, and leaves the puny, deformed, and unmanly to breed the next generation.

George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.52, MIT Press

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

Nikola Tesla, David Hatcher Childress (1993). “The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla”, p.97, Adventures Unlimited Press

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936