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. John Quincy Adams
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.
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. Isaac Disraeli
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.
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell! Thomas Stonewall Jackson
In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the First Brigade! In the Army of the Potomac you were the First Brigade! In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the First Brigade! You are the First Brigade in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the First Brigade in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!
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. Alice James
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.
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
I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? Groucho Marx
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
My advice for posterity? Live by principle - that's all. Steve Wallace
My advice for posterity? Live by principle - that's all.
...the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity. Polybius
...the glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man. Sam Houston
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
History is made by the people, ... In assessing whether [a politician] has really achieved something big, the last word belongs to posterity. Li Peng
History is made by the people, ... In assessing whether [a politician] has really achieved something big, the last word belongs to posterity.
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. Ambrose Bierce
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. Charlotte Smith
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else. Heywood C. Broun
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity. James Russell Lowell
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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