Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

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

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.