Quotes about Legacy
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
— DH Lawrence
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
— Mark Twain
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
— Abraham Lincoln
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.
— Ronald Reagan
I wish to have as my epitaph: 'Here lies a man who was wise enough to bring into his service men who knew more than he.'
— Andrew Carnegie
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
— Thomas Watson
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
— Thomas Watson
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years.
— Harry S. Truman
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
— Ronald Reagan
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
— St. Jerome
Man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
— Washington Irving
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.