Posterity Quotes

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Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty! — Samuel Adams
Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.… — Samuel Adams
Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a… — Thomas Jefferson
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
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a… — Walter Russell
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat… — Barack Obama
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to… — George Washington
Only those works which are well-written will pass to posterity: the amount of knowledge, the uniqueness of the facts, even the novelty of the discoveries… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us to the most… — Montgomery Schuyler
This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne);… — Antoine Lavoisier
[The infinitely small] neither have nor can have theory; it is a dangerous instrument in the hands of beginners [ ... ] anticipating, for my… — Francois-Joseph Servois
Our enlightened posterity will look back upon us who eat oxen and sheep, just as we look upon cannibals. — William Winwood Reade
Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to… — Thomas Jefferson
Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not… — George Washington
That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes… — Barack Obama

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