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?

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan read more

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England

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.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors

As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige read more

As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu read more

Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.

The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; read more

The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do
something for us."