Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary because heaven has granted me no offspring.

OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race and our ancestors virtually live in us.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.