Posterity sayings

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◆ A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless.

- Theodore Roosevelt99

◆ We must seek the truth, love it, defend it, and hand it down uncorrupted to our posterity.

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◆ After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style

- Isaac Disraeli99

◆ I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

- Rene Descartes99

◆ Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

- John Quincy Adams99

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

- Edmund Burke99

◆ Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

- Heywood C Broun99

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

- Robert G Menzies99

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

- Alexander Smith99