Posterity Quotes

276 quotes by 196 authors

In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will… — James Bryce
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their… — Robert Trout
All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;… — George Mason
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke
Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and… — Robert E. Lee
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity. — Joyce Carol Oates
Let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity. — Spencer W. Kimball
Go on, get out - last words are for fools who haven't said enough. To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last… — Karl Marx
Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so much that your… — Spencer W. Kimball
What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will, an inspirational family… — Theodore M. Burton
Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity. — Alexander Crummell
We need to understand that being an accomplice or accessory to those who seek to enslave our posterity, is no better than being the folks… — Matt Shea
Convinced that the republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind, my… — Thomas Jefferson
There never did, there never will, and there never can exist a parliament, or any description of men, or any generation of men, in any… — Thomas Paine
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That… — John Trumbull
What artists call posterity is the posterity of the work of art. — Marcel Proust
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them. — Benjamin Franklin
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come.… — Russell M. Nelson
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious… — Tacitus

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