“Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.”
James Joyce
“The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity”
Henry Clay
“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”
Groucho Marx
“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 Descartes
“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
John Stuart Mill
“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 Disraeli
“I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.”
Sam Houston
