The voice of a new nation calls through me for the freedom of the earth, which was made for man, and not for Romans!The rule that your ancestors won by strength their posterity shall no longer keep by fraud.For two hundred years, hollow and unlasting truces have alternated with long and bloody wars between your people and mine....
Therefore, unless he be an impostor, he need give himself no trouble regarding his future.His works shall serve as a clue, produced century after century, along which posterity shall feel its way back to his studio and heart....
They have revealed to me strange and terrible things -- but not more strange and terrible than true.They have told me how thy posterity shall suffer for the injustice thou doest to thy people.They have shown me a scaffold which a King shall mount -- and a block whereon a royal head shall be laid....
Not, however, because those speeches will so edify and soothe me, nor merely because those veiled statues will make less uncouth the city I was born in, do I feverishly thrust on you my proposition.The wish in me is that posterity shall be haunted by our dead heroes even as I am by Umberto....
This is an important occasion for us -- it is perhaps the last time that we shall meet as a free people with a free government.Let us then rise to the height of this occasion; let us arrive at a decision for which our posterity shall bless, and not curse us....
Round the aqueducts of story, As the mists of Lethe throng, Croton's waves in all their glory Troop in melody along.Ever sparkling, bright, and single, Will this rock-ribbed stream appear, When posterity shall mingle Like the gathered waters here....
If I live, posterity shall know that, and more; which, though you, and somebody that shall be nameless, seem to value less than I could wish, is all the return I can make you.Will you give me leave to say how I would desire to stand in your memory?...
Men esteem him for this a zealous affectionate, but they mistake him many times, for he does it but to be esteemed so.Of all men he is worst to write an history, for he will praise a Sejanus or Tiberius, and for some petty respect of his all posterity shall be cozened....
This day He commands us to die for His law; for that law which we have cherished from the first hour it was given, which we have preserved pure throughout our captivity in all nations, and which for the many consolations it has given us, and the eternal hope it communicates, can we do less than die?Posterity shall behold this book of truth, sealed with our blood; and our death, while it displays our sincerity, shall impart confidence to the wanderer of Israel.Death is before our eyes; and we have only to choose an honourable and easy one....
Ennobled shalt thou be, For I shall sing the joys that spring Beneath yon ilex-tree.Yes, fountain of Bandusia, Posterity shall know The cooling brooks that from thy nooks Singing and dancing go....
It saves them from the vagrant destitution which must largely attend immediate emancipation in localities where their numbers are very great, and it gives the inspiring assurance that their posterity shall be free forever.The plan leaves to each State choosing to act under it to abolish slavery now or at the end of the century, or at any intermediate time, or by degrees extending over the whole or any part of the period, and it obliges no two States to proceed alike....
At the other extreme, we have the great and growing body of sciences of observation.Through the whole nineteenth century, to say nothing of previous centuries, organizations, and even individuals, have been engaged in recording the innumerable phases of the course of nature, hoping to accumulate material that posterity shall be able to utilize for its benefit.We have observations astronomical, meteorological, magnetic, and social, accumulating in constantly increasing volume, the mass of which is so unmanageable with our present organizations that the question might well arise whether almost the whole of it will not have to be consigned to oblivion....
Thanks to me, who consider of measures to prevent it!Posterity shall laud and glorify me for plucking thee clean out of her head, and for picking up timely a ticklish skittle, that might overthrow with it a power of others just as light....