Quotes on Posterity

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.

Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.