Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us. — Henry Knox Copy Share Image
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.” — George Ade Copy Share Image
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Ignatius Donnelly Copy Share Image
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is no fullness of joy in the next life without a family unit, including a husband, a wife, and posterity. Further,… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
“Art, to be fully appreciated, must be true to contemporaneous life. It is not that we should ignore the claims of posterity,… — Kakuzō Okakura Copy Share Image
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Not marble nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme, But you shall shine more bright in these contents… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To know John Kennedy, as I did, was to understand the true meaning of the word. He understood that courage is not… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or… — George Mason Copy Share Image
The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
