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Posterity Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under…
- Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.
- The principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale
More Posterity Quotes
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison
- We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison
- After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. — George Ade
- The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. — Jorge Luis Borges
- People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
- The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay
- Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and… — William J. Clinton