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
A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the biggest superstar. I want to be good at my job, and I want my work to… — Sonam Kapoor 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
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
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are… — Erasmus Darwin 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
It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the… — Russell Kirk 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
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
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader… — Alex Nunns Copy Share Image
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if… — Mercy Otis Warren Copy Share Image
The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day,… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
“Often they descended to their grave with an ironic smile – for what was there left of them to bury! Only the… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye… — Samuel Adams 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
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
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are… — Dudley North Copy Share Image
Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly… — Isaac D'Israeli 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
If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
