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Letter "P" » posterity
«The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity»
Author: Henry Clay
(Statesman)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution
| Keywords:
Constitution of the, Constitution of the United, Constitution of the United States, existed, posterity, undefined, United States Constitution, unlimited
«Queen Victoria - this flabby, fat, flatulent looking scion and successor of the most ignoble line of Royal Georges - Her chief claim to the remembrance of posterity will be that she has the means of afflicting the English people with a most prolific»
Author: John Norton
| Keywords:
afflicting, English people, flabby, flatulent, Georges, ignoble, posterity, prolific, Queen Victoria, remembrance, royal, scion, successor, Victoria
«Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.»
«The function of posterity is to look after itself»
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.»
«The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Action,
History
| Keywords:
infamous, Office of, posterity, take to, take to be
«POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appellant, appellate, appellate court, author, competitor, contemporaries, court, obscure, popular, posterity, reversed, reverses, Reversing, The Contemporary
«People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Posterity
| Keywords:
look backward, posterity
«The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
believes, bricks, brick in, building, built, destroyed, discovers, material, nonetheless, philosopher, philosophy, possess, posterity, that is to say, The Brick, The Building, The Philosopher, used
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