Posterity Quotes

“To live for the moment is the prevailing passion - to live for yourself, not for your predecessors or posterity.”

“The Constitution of the United States was not made merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity-unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.”

“And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.”

“Shall we not labour in our time, that our posterity may reap the benefit?”

“Posterity is the posterity of critics.”

“Look and listen for the welfare of the whole people and have always in view not only the present but also the coming generations.”

“Posterity may know we have not loosely through silence permitted things to pass away as in a dream.”

“Let our remotest posterity know that we are not only free but invested with the means of enjoying that freedom.”

“Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.”

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

“La postérité n'est souvent qu'une cabale qui a réussi.”

“Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?”

“He plants trees that will be of advantage to a future age.”