It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
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
No generation can do another generation's work for it. What we human beings can do at most is to mark out the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato 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
The Lord clearly defined the roles of providing for and rearing a righteous posterity. In the beginning, Adam, not Eve, was instructed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed… — Polybius 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 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
The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity. — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake… — Samuel Adams 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
“Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Again and again [Tomas] Jefferson deftly sidesteps many of [John] Adams's often provocative remarks. They both felt the correspondence, which was written… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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