Posterity Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

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 weaves no garlands for imitators.

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.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

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.

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

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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

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.

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

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.