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Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?
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Robert Walpole It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face. Robert Louis Stevenson Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. Robert Trout Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech. Robert G. Menzies People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. Irwin Shaw Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. Friedrich Schiller 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 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 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 The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. Henry Clay The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. Ignatius Donnelly 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 The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing. Jorge Luis Borges The function of posterity is to look after itself. Dylan Thomas 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 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 The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. Walter Savage Landor The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. Benjamin Disraeli We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. Joseph Addison |
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