Posterity Quotes

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

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 do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

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.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.