Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 192 authors

Material possessions and honors of the world do not endure. But your union as wife, husband, and family can. No sacrifice is too great to… — Russell M. Nelson
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many… — Peter Biskind
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find nobility and divinity… — Sheri L. Dew
The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us — Abraham Lincoln
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity — James Russell Lowell
The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us. — Henry Knox
Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what… — Gutzon Borglum
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes. — Len Wein
..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 Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more… — Ezra Taft Benson
We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that… — Thomas Jefferson
True conformity to the dictates of nature requires reverence for the past and solicitude for the future. 'Nature' is not simply the sensation of the… — Russell Kirk
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. — Irwin Shaw
Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something… — Eric Hoffer
The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are… — George Eliot

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