Robert G. Ingersoll

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

Lewis Mumford

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers”. –Lewis Mumford

Herodotus

“In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons”. –Herodotus

Austin O’Malley

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father”. –Austin O’Malley