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
“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
IF WE AND OUR POSTERITY SHALL BE TRUE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IF WE AND THEY SHALL LIVE ALWAYS IN THE FEAR… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty! — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“But to unite in a permanent religious institution which is not to be subject to doubt before the public even in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers. — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Those who have no sense of posterity or any concern for future generations are the ones who are really dead. I mean,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are… — Dudley North Copy Share Image
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
