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We, in this country, in this generation, are - by destiny rather than by choice - the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.
- John F. Kennedy
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
- Henry B. Eyring
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.
- Pope Benedict XVI
If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.
- Glenn Beck
Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.
- Gordon Hinckley
Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.
- Gordon Hinckley
Whether the succeeding generation is to be more virtuous than their predecessors I cannot say; but I am sure they will have more worldly wisdom, and enough, I hope, to know that honesty is the 1st chapter in the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
- Francis Schaeffer
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.
- Brigham Young
All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
- Jim Rohn
known to humankind through the creation that surrounds them, God exposes that early generation's unthankfulness and points an omniscient finger of guilt toward their idolatrous betrayal, the particular
- Terry James
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct historical shadows to the generation immediately following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich