It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
I charge [my sons] never to let the motives of private interest or ambition to influence them to betray, nor the terrors… — George Mason 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
The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of… — Alice James Copy Share Image
When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so… — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will… — Alexander Gardner 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
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Sir, very few people reach posterity. Who amongst us may arrive at that destination I presume not to vaticinate. Posterity is a… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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