Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes… — George Washington 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
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And as long as America must choose, that long will there be a need and a place for the Democratic Party. We… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The best time for marriage will be towards thirty, for as the younger times are unfit, either to choose or to govern… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been… — Mike Stoller Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us… — Montgomery Schuyler Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
You have power over my body but the Lord Jesus hath power over my body and soul; and assure yourselves thus much,… — Anne Hutchinson Copy Share Image
There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but… — James Bryce 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
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
I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves… — Anonymous 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
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of… — Eric Hoffer 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
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Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
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