Paul Tsongas Quotes

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

Canada is our inheritance from our parents and our legacy to our children.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

Our children are the living messages we send to a future we will ever see... Will we rob them of their destiny? Will we rob them of their dreams? No - we will not do that.

When I think about my legacy, I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

All of us should be involved in our own futures to create a world that our children will want to live in.

I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

The world belongs primarily to the dead, and we only rent it from them for a little while. They created it, they wrote its literature and its songs, and they are deeply invested in how children are treated, because the children are the ones who will keep it going. The idea that each of us has the right to change everything is a deep insult to them.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

The important things are children, honesty, integrity and faith.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

This younger generation is paying in many cases, for the sins of its elders.

Our ethical values point one way, towards intergenerational responsibility, but our political system points another, towards the short-term horizon of the next election. We should consider introducing agents who can vote in a far-seeing and impartial way.

Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

All I think about is my son, my family, and my future family.

I think about the world that we leave behind for our children.