Quotes with posterity

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  • Bill Clinton 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.
    First inaugural address, Washington, D.C. (January 20, 1993)
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Lord George Byron Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Tacitus Posterity will pay everyone their due.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Algernon Sydney 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.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton 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
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jorge Luis Borges The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Dylan Thomas The function of posterity is to look after itself.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • 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.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Jean Paul The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Walter Savage Landor The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • John Adams Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Voltaire This poem will never reach its destination. [On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity]
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Ben Jonson When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Thomas Paine When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Boyle Roche Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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