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Posterity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!— JOHN Q. ADAMS — Speech at Plymouth.

Dec. 22, 1802. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. III. P. 274.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.— BENJ. FRANKLIN — Letter to Washington.

March 5, 1780. What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?— JOHN TRUMBULL — McFingal. Canto II. L. 121.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.— H. B. WALLACE — Stanly. Vol. II.