A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower; Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain, And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!

Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles. [Lat., Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara juventus.]

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]