But say, my lord, it were not regist'red, Methinks the truth should live from age to age, As 'twere retailed to all… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend.… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name… — Robert Walpole Copy Share Image
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family.… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf 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
Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were… — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
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