Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

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.

Remember two things. One is never to forget posterity when devising a policy. The other is never to think of posterity when making a speech.

We shall have to fight the politician who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing for posterity.

Statesmen are judged by history beyond contemporary debates.

I beseech you to live not only for this age, but for the next also.

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

America’s youth really own this country.

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

One-hundred years from now, nobody's going to remember that I played for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays - nobody!

It's naive of adults to believe that young people aren't aware of what is going on in the world. The best thing we can do is confront that to help them navigate it. We can help them say, 'These things are happening. What does that mean for your life?'

There's only so many guys on a football team that really have a voice. So anytime you have a microphone, you should use it for the betterment of humanity, for the betterment of this country, for the betterment of our kids coming up behind us, for the future of the world. Why not? Make the world a better place.

I think the reason I've been so committed to advocacy is because I see so many people in pain.

I always say now it's the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.

There are certainly young people who are very aware of what's going on in this country, and we want to treat that with respect. We don't want to patronize our audience by just talking about the frivolousness. It's a balance.

Time cancels young pain.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

It is pleasant to observe how free the present age is in laying taxes on the next. "Future ages shall talk of this; they shall be famous to all posterity;" whereas their time and thoughts will be taken up about present things, as ours are now.

Youth holds no society with grief.