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Tag Name "Posterity" (201)

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Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness of modern materialistic philosophers.
Louis Pasteur
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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 allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Tacitus
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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 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 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 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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Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
Tacitus
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Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.
W. S. Gilbert
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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 weaves no garlands for imitators.
Friedrich Schiller
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Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.
Denis Diderot
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What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
Thomas B. Macaulay
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We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.
Patrick Henry
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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 the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
Thomas Jefferson
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The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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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 count on any thing but annuals.
Thomas Jefferson
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I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long run. Too many good writers have disappeared.
Peter Biskind
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