Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 196 authors

Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned… — Barack Obama
I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar. — Benjamin Disraeli
What cities, as great as this, have . . . promised themselves immortality! Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveller wanders… — Oliver Goldsmith
Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain. — Seneca the Younger
Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used, reverently… — Ferdinand von Mueller
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a… — Thomas Paine
[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and… — George Washington
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued for… — Thomas Jefferson
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it… — Abraham Lincoln
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and… — J. Allen Hynek
We have castrated society through fear and intimidation. Its manhood exists only in combination with a feminine outward appearance. Being so neutered, the populace has… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable… — Yasmina Khadra
A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return… — Salman Rushdie
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing… — Henry David Thoreau
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! — Samuel Adams
Your proposal raises the greatest mischief that can befall my country. You could not have found a person to whom your schemes are more disagreeable.… — George Washington
Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has… — Pericles

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