Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 192 authors

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not… — Samuel Adams
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England — W R Inge
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. — John Quincy Adams
Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design; - and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. — Unknown Author
A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity. — Alexander Smith
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest… — George Washington
[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy… — Daniel Webster
Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts… — George Washington
The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale — Thomas Jefferson
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else — Heywood Broun
Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is… — John Dickinson
We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have reason… — Henry David Thoreau
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — Unknown Author
There are persons who leave an indelible impression in the history of the world. They make it compulsory for the future generations to remember them… — T Joseph Benziger
News informs us of the happenings; they reflect where the humankind stands at the moment in various respects of life. They provide mental pabulum for… — K S Venkataraman

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