Quotes by Posterity Posterity shall know of me even less than I shall know of posterity. W. S. Gilbert posterity knows Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity. W. S. Gilbert posterity knows littles We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait. Walter Cronkite posterity responsibility waiting If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it. Charlotte Smith neither does conquest posterity «12