Lysander Spooner Quotes

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

If the American people don't love me, their descendants will.

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.

Anyone who has ever watched a child's eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come.

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

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

I want to take care of my family for generations. I want to have my head turned into a bust in the Hall of Fame.

Legacy is something you talk about when you're dead - and I'm not dead yet.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

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.

For the future. For the unborn.

Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity.

I don't think about my legacy, if indeed, I have one.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

I hope that my family will continue in another thousand years.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward, so he can be proud of his daddy.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

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

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.