Posterity Quotes

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

- Edmund Burke

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

- Heywood C. Broun

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

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

- Joseph Addison

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

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

- Robert G. Menzies

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

- W. R. Inge