Hereditary Grand Duke

Famous quotes containing the words hereditary, grand and/or duke:

    We bring [to government] no hereditary status or gift of infallibility and none follows us from this place.
    Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)

    That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe—the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
    —Vernon Duke (1903–1969)