Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu read more

Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He has lived to
posterity.
[Lat., Quid quaeris, quamdiu visit? Vixit ad posteros.]

What has poster'ty done for us,
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our read more

What has poster'ty done for us,
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
[Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also read more

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.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; read more

The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public
business: "we do much for posterity; I would fain see them do
something for us."

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else