We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“The only way anyone can hope to live after death is if he leaves something that posterity can remember him for.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Though a hundred crooked paths may conduct to a temporary success, the one plain and straight path of public and private virtue… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective… — Juan Gines de Sepulveda Copy Share Image
“There never did, there never will, and there never can, exist a Parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang?… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
Never is a historic deed already completed when it is done but always only when it is handed down to posterity. What… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
