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
“Most often, adorned winners haven’t worked for posterity but for the laurel wreaths and real winners don’t care about adorned victories.” — Dejan Stojanovic 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
One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane… — Giuseppe Garibaldi Copy Share Image
Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade!… — Stonewall Jackson Copy Share Image
I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday)… — Michelle Herman 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
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
I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so… — Spencer W. Kimball 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
Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character… — Edward Gibbon 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
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
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
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 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
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
Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
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
I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of… — Childe Hassam Copy Share Image
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams 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
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
