How to use "generations" in a sentence

I say to my countrymen so long as you have a sense of honour and so long as you wish to remain the descendants and defenders of the noble traditions that have been handed to you for generations after generations; it is unconstitutional for you not to non-cooperate and unconstitutional for you to cooperate with a Government which has become so unjust as our Government has become.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger