Posterity Quotes

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

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 posterity.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

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 we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.