Quotes: Posterity

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

Dudley North

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Charles Caleb Colton

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A man doesn’t plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Alexander Smith

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Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

Robert G. Menzies

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Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

William Kingdon Clifford

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Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Julius Sterling Morton

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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

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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Irwin Shaw

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

George Ade

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