Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E. P. Thompson Copy Share Image
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear. — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
It cannot be said that the Constitution formed 'the people of the United States,' for all time, into a corporation. It does… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done… — John Trumbull Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
