“I know it sounds hard to believe, but habits laid down by our ancestors persist even after the conditions that created those habits have gone away.” KnowsBelieveHardSoundGoneConditionsHabitAncestorPersistHard To BelieveGone Away Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.” MomentsHateInfluenceHabitHonorDeedsExcuseHatedMeritPresent MomentSentimentsReverenceAncestorTreacherous Book:Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.” MenGovernmentChristianReligiousMoralPrinciplesHabitCitizensMoralityFoundationSecureSentimentsAncestorTrustedGood ChristianGood CitizenMoral PrinciplesFounding AmericaSystems Of Government Book:The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster Source: The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster