Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

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.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

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.