Don’t speak ill of your predecessors or successors. You didn’t walk in their shoes. — Donald Rumsfeld
Plato and his objectivistic successors … preserved the awareness of differences that pragmatism — Max Horkheimer
All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their — Jared Diamond
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone – no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Only when God was said to have died did various leaders, professions and sectors risk pushing themselves forward as successors. — John Ralston Saul
I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information. — Jean Moulin
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence — George Orwell