Our Founders saw themselves in the light of posterity. We can do no less. Anyone who has ever watched a child’s eyes wander into sleep knows what posterity is. Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility.

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (b. 1946) American politician, US President (1993-2001)

Speech (1993-01-20), Inaugural Address, Washington, D.C.
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