Posterity Quotes - Page 12

• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design;--and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Country, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.123, Penguin

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• Verbal representations of such places or scenes may, or may not, have the merit of accuracy; but photographic presentments of them will be accepted by posterity with an undoubting faith.

  Alexander Gardner

  May, Merit, Scene

  Alexander Gardner (1866). “Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the Civil War”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Thinking, White, House

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, "College Tour", www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, 4th Of July, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.35, Penguin

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• Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

  Herman Melville

  Men, Thinking, Cannibal

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.193, Northwestern University Press

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• In the Army of the Shenandoah, you were the 'First Brigade!' In the Army of the Potomac you were the 'First Brigade!' In the Second Corps of this Army, you are the 'First Brigade!' You are the 'First Brigade' in the affections of your general, and I hope by your future deeds and bearing you will be handed down the posterity as the 'First Brigade' in this our Second War of Independence. Farewell!

  Stonewall Jackson

  War, Farewell, Army

  Stonewall Jackson's farewell address to his brigade as he left to receive his promotion to Major General, October 4, 1861.

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• When we let our freedoms slip away without a fight or even without concern, we take freedom, prosperity and happiness away from our posterity. What kind of people do that? Are we such people? These are questions each of us must face.

  Oliver DeMille

  Fighting, People, Faces

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• If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Two, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.194, Wildside Press LLC

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• There's no posterity to write for.  I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

  Peter Reading

  Writing, Arthropods

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• When biblical material touches on the natural world, we can legitimately use the tools of science. Sometimes that shows us - no shock here - that biblical writers didn't know as much as we now know about the natural world - but God knew that when he picked them, so that alone tells us that "doing science" that would satisfy a 21st century - and beyond - audience wasn't what God was interested in with respect to the enterprise of producing Scripture for posterity.

  Michael S. Heiser

  Biblical, World, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Land

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.

  Herman Melville

  Art, Political, Dreamer

  Herman Melville (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.409, Northwestern University Press

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• Writing a book about Jeremy Corbyn, set out with two objectives. The first was simple: to explain how he became the leader of the Labour Party. I was disappointed - but not at all surprised - at the complete absence of intellectual curiosity on display. The second objective I had to try to capture for posterity the excitement and spirit of the first Corbyn campaign. Those moments when the impossible suddenly becomes possible are so powerful to those who experience them. I think it's politically valuable to relive such moments, to learn the lessons of what went right.

  Alex Nunns

  Powerful, Party, Book

  Source: salvage.zone

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• Posterity will one day laugh at the sublime foolishness of the modern materialistic philosophy. The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. I pray while I am engaged at my work in the laboratory.

  Louis Pasteur

  Philosophy, Laughing, Sublime

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• I still perform live primarily. I just keep traveling and doing live shows. The main difference in film, you know in your mind that you are doing it for posterity, you are doing for the eventual audience and it will be around forever.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Differences, Forever, Mind

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• God and posterity will show me more favour

  Lady Jane Grey

  Favour, Show Me, Shows

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• I always think W.S. Merwin's poems will last of anyone writing today. If I had to bet on posterity I would bet Merwin. My poems could easily evaporate. So I don't know. If you find yourself as a writer thinking about posterity you should probably go out for a brisk walk or something.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Thinking, Finding Yourself

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• Men of Color, To Arms! The case is before you. This is our golden opportunity. Let us accept it, and forever wipe out the dark reproaches unsparingly hurled against us by our enemies. Let us win for ourselves the gratitude of our country, and the best blessings of our posterity through all time.

  Frederick Douglass

  Country, Gratitude, War

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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• Posterity will call you the great emancipator, a more enviable title than any crown could be, and greater than any merely mundane treasure.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Titles, Crowns, Treasure

  Letter to Lincoln on August 06, 1863. "Garibaldi (Great Lives Observed)". Book by Denis Mack Smith, 1969.

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• Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Ruins, States, Gods Will

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• Please follow the counsel you have been given in the past and maintain your personal journals. Those who keep a book of remembrance are more likely to keep the Lord in remembrance in their daily lives. Journals are a way of counting our blessings and of leaving an inventory of these blessings for our posterity.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Book, Blessing, Past

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• We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.

  Shunroku Hata

  Opportunity, Missing, Should

  "Enter Japan", Time Magazine, July 8, 1940.

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

  Abigail Adams

  Blessing, Suffering, Hardship

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• In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Wisdom, Integrity, Tombstone

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