Hosea Ballou Quote

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.