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Tag Name "Posterity" (200)

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Posterity is always just.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Horace Walpole
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Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?
Jules Renard
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
Irwin Shaw
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Friedrich Schiller
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Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Tacitus
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
Denis Diderot
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Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Louis Pasteur
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Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age less portable valuables disappear.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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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.
William J. Clinton
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Posterity has never made the grave's embrace less cruel. It simply assuages our fear of death, because there is no better cure for out inevitable morality then the illusion of a beautiful eternity. But there is one illusion I still hold dear: that is the thought of an enlightened nation. That is the only future I still dream of.
Yasmina Khadra
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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
Tacitus
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posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
Abigail Adams
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Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.
Louis Pasteur
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My wife, who does not like journalizing, said it was leaving myself embowelled to posterity--a good strong figure. But I think itis rather leaving myself embalmed. It is certainly preserving myself.
James Boswell
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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 among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.
George Mason
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Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
James Joyce
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Photography at first was asked to do nothing but embalm our best smiles for the benefit of our friends and our best clothes for the amusement of posterity. Neither thing lasts, and photography came as a welcome salve to keep those precious, if slightly ridiculous, things a little longer in the world.
George Santayana
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A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
James Russell Lowell
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[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men.
George Washington
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