As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be… — Ferdinand von Mueller Copy Share Image
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity. — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.' — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
In the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to lose for their convictions are deserving of posterity's approval. — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts. Invoking posterity is like making speeches to worms.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
At some point in my life, before I was gone, I wanted to make an album, even if it was for no… — Danny Aiello Copy Share Image
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory,… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege,… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have thought about posterity all my life. There isn't as much adventure and creative unfolding as there is in planting a… — Barbara Hammer Copy Share Image
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal;… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To avoid the consequences of posterity the mulattos give the blacks a first class letting alone. There is a frantic stampede white-ward… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of… — Plato Copy Share Image
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[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ]… — Francois-Joseph Servois Copy Share Image
When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Where are now the warriors of the world of the spirit? Where are those who raise their voices for truth, who lead… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster;… — Pericles Copy Share Image
The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the churches of… — Philipp Melanchthon Copy Share Image
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