Quotes about Legacy

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

O'Captain, My Captain.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble