Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 196 authors

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of… — John Adams
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of… — Joseph Addison
We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. — George Ade
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. — Henry Clay
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we… — William J. Clinton
I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people… — Stephen A. Douglas
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. — Joseph Addison
Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren. — Art Linkletter
In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues… — Alexander Hamilton
That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to… — Ben Jonson
Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a… — Subhas Chandra Bose
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second… — Stonewall Jackson
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. — Jean Paul
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man. — Denis Diderot
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put. — Euripides
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. — Ben Jonson

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