Our Posterity Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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I promise that if you will keep your journals and records, they will indeed be a source of great inspiration to your families, to your…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
— Seneca the Younger
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Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so…
— Jefferson Davis
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How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?
— Alan Keyes
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Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark…
— Frederick Douglass
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Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our…
— John Quincy Adams
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We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,…
— Gouverneur Morris
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Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to…
— Russell M. Nelson
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The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are…
— George Eliot
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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.
— Alexander Crummell
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We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks…
— Matt Shea
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Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
— Walter Savage Landor
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If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even our…
— Jean le Rond d'Alembert
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The ultimate treasures on earth and in heaven are our children and our posterity.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity…
— Daniel Webster
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing…
— Henry David Thoreau
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We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we…
— Charlie Pierce
Who Wrote These Our Posterity Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Our Posterity Quotes as follows: