#posterity

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bear #best #borrowed #come #demand

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived. ↗

— E. Joseph Cossman

#least #let us #live #lived #long

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. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#discovery #explained #hope #i #i hope that

I'm interested in designing for posterity. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #interested #posterity

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#going #judgments #lot #makes #posterity

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

#compact #conquest #does #neither #posterity