Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 192 authors

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors. — Abigail Adams
Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today? — Jules Renard
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character,… — Alexandre Dumas
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
We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well. — Javier MarÃas
The god which the vast majority of professing Christians love is looked upon very much like an indulgent old man, who himself has no relish… — Arthur W. Pink
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the… — P.D. James
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
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost… — George Orwell
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be… — Jane Austen
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find… — Tacitus
Historic figures have homes to visit for posterity; the Lord of history left no home. Luminaries leave libraries and write their memoirs; He left one… — Ravi Zacharias
Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity. — Arundhati Roy
May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had. — Mira Grant
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Posterity will pay everyone their due. — Tacitus
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror… — Tacitus
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity. — E. P. Thompson
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they… — John Dryden

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