posterity quotes

• Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity. (John Adams) [think/think/posterity]
• We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would see posterity do something for us. (Joseph Addison) [posterity/posterity]
• It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. (Joseph Addison) [posterity/right/greatness/age]
• 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) [genius/posterity/interest/start]
• Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person. (Charles Caleb Colton) [posterity/willpower]
• The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. (Benjamin Disraeli) [youth/nation/posterity]
• All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. This becomes even more obvious when posterity gives its final verdict and sometimes rehabilitates forgotten artists. (Marcel Duchamp) [artist/more/posterity/verdict]
• What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [life/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) [give/posterity/reputation]
• I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. (Thomas Jefferson) [more/money/posterity]
• When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. (Ben Jonson) [misfortune/enemies/posterity]
• Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. (James Joyce) [posterity/america]
• Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves. (Abraham Lincoln) [posterity/willpower/posterity/think]
• After mature deliberation of counsel, the good Queen to establish a rule and immutable example unto all posterity, for the moderation and required modesty in a lawful marriage, ordained the number of six times a day as a lawful, necessary and competent limit. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [posterity/marriage/day]
• The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [value/philosophy/posterity/value]
• When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. (Thomas Paine) [posterity/remember/virtue]
• Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. (Johann Friedrich Von Schiller) [posterity]
• This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. (Henry David Thoreau) [government/tradition/posterity/willpower]
• 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. (Twyla Tharp) [time/mission/posterity]

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