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
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
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Robert G. Menzies
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
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
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
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
Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx
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.
Joseph Addison
My advice for posterity? Live by principle - that's all.
Steve Wallace
...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
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
George Ade
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
A blog is an ideal way of doing a brain dump on a daily basis of what is going on right now, the weird, the exciting and the awful things ... I also wanted to have a record for myself, just for posterity.
David Adams
POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
Ambrose Bierce
If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.
Charlotte Smith
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
Pierre De Fermat
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
Heywood C. Broun
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
James Russell Lowell
Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.
E. Joseph Cossman
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