It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in… — Sam Houston 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
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
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke 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
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. — William Cowper 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
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
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
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to… — Abraham Lincoln 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
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
“But the lie often repeated becomes history, and the snake-oil pitchman's forgery of yore becomes the inspirational gospel of a posterity that… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting… — Robert Trout 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
