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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of
those battles.
[Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum
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Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of
those battles.
[Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum
Rara juventus.]
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the read more
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige read more
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot)
what has it ever done to oblige me?
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided read more
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.
