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Posterity Quotes by Daniel Webster
- If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity…
- [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…
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- We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond… — Barack Obama
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- The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay
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- Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least… — E. Joseph Cossman