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A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
 Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for 
posterity; for what has posterity done read more 
 Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for 
posterity; for what has posterity done for us? 
 Herself the solitary scion left
 Of a time-honour'd race.  
 Herself the solitary scion left
 Of a time-honour'd race. 
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided read more
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
 Strangers are contemporary posterity.
 [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]  
 Strangers are contemporary posterity.
 [Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.] 
 Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
 [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]  
 Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
 [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] 
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
 What has poster'ty done for us,
 That we, lest they their rights should lose,
  Should trust our read more 
 What has poster'ty done for us,
 That we, lest they their rights should lose,
  Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?