When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.