Future Judgment Quotes

History will absolve me.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

As for my conduct in public office, my compatriots, as is usually the case, will divide their opinions; their children will render true judgment.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

Posterity will judge / Did we good or did we evil, / But for now - hand in hand - Let's move forward, our steps more sure!

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.

What will people of the future think of us? Will they say, as Roger Williams said of the Massachusetts Indians, that we were wolves with the minds of men? Will they think that we resigned our humanity? They will have the right.

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.

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past

I not going to focus on what I have done in the past what I stand for, what I articulate to the American people. The American people will judge me on what I am saying and what I have done in the last 12 years in the Congress.

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.

It is almost certain that we will fail. But how will future history judge the German people, if not even a handful of men had the courage to put an end to that criminal?

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the second is the immortality of the human soul; and the third is a future state of rewards and punishments. Suppose it possible for a man to disbelieve either of these three articles of faith and that man will have no conscience, he will have no other law than that of the tiger or the shark. The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.

The political leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be superstars rather than heroes .... Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of the future ...

If it is permitted to the enlightened but baffled Statesman, when deserted and fallen from his place, to appeal from the voices of the moment to the judgment of more impartial times, with what right can we call in question the loftier form of the same prophetic trust which looks to a present God rather than to future men?

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.