Future Generations Quotes

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

The earth always belongs to the living.

Land is not something you inherit from your parents. It is something you borrow from your children.

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.

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. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think ... that a time is to come when these stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor, and the wrought substance of them, See! This our fathers did for us!

Leave it [The Grand Canyon] as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it …. Keep it for your children, your children’s children, and all who come after you, as one of the sights which every American … should see.

The world is not given by our fathers but borrowed from our children.

This is not about Republican or Democrat. It is about our children, it's about our families, it is about our country, and frankly, ladies and gentlemen, it is about the world. We've got to leave here and march, and make sure Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are president and vice president of the United States.

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.

These are our children. We will all profit by and pay for whatever they become.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

If any one age really attains, by eugenics and scientific education, the power to make its descendants what it pleases, all men who live after it are the patients of that power.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.

Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

The thing with all the Founding Fathers, one of the most common words they used was 'posterity.' They were constantly referring to posterity.

The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.