40 Posterity Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Hope Good Freedom History You Generation Will Posterity Cost Never Know Make How How Much Much Use Your Your Freedom Present Preserve

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people - women as well as men. Susan B. Anthony

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

Constitution Generation Made Unlimited States Posterity Constitution Of The United States Merely Undefined Perpetual Existed Endless Then United United States

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

People Will Ancestors Backward Posterity Never Look Who Forward

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

Better Think Our Posterity Doing Than Reproach Even Suffer Right

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

Remember Ought Virtue Posterity Planning Hereditary

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman. Rose Kennedy

Woman Women Natural Gift Motherhood Birth Way Would Would-Be Posterity Seem Seems Ideal Most Greatest God-Given Rewarding Children Which Us Rearing Satisfying Career

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. Rene Descartes

Hope Me Judge Will Others Pleasure Those Kindly Posterity Only Also Judge Me Leave Discovery Intentionally Which Explained Things

We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes. Charlie Pierce

Obligation Water Sometimes Lose Own Other Trees Wild Our Sight Posterity Obliged Imperative Protect Because Debt Truths Owe American Common Places Land Each Fundamental Things

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

Me Care Posterity About Done Should Why Ever

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. Benjamin Disraeli

Youth Nation Posterity

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. Charles Caleb Colton

Genius Honored Draws Posterity Compound True Soon True Genius Sure Although Always Due End May In The End Which Interest Paid Drafts

I make movies for me and posterity. I'm more scared of history than I am of the studio. Doug Liman

Me History Scared Posterity More Studio Make Am Than Movies

The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large. Edmund Morgan

History Seriously Men Carefully Took Benefit Everything States Papers Posterity Writ Mainly New Massachusetts Track New England Governed Did Often The History Of Themselves England Who Descendants Connecticut Large Whole Appeared United United States Founded Kept

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck. Elmore Leonard

Posterity Write Buck Make Going

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life Man Half Posterity Entirely Gives

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? John Trumbull

Rights Trust Obligation Lose Nurse Our Though Posterity Bear Tie Were Get Done Them Us Breed Should Lest Necks

The increasing legal pressure against archives has created anxieties among researchers, librarians, and journalists. They cite the need to protect sources who wish to make a record for posterity; procuring documents and interviews from those sources will be difficult if the fruits are only one subpoena away from disclosure. Jonathan Zittrain

Legal Will Pressure Wish Difficult Increasing Interviews Those Cite Posterity Record Archives Only Journalists Protect Make Documents Disclosure Sources Anxieties Fruits Against Created Researchers Who Away Among Need

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges

Worth Nothing Posterity More Contemporary Than Which Flattery Much

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