Quotes about Legacy

It is instructive (and sometimes properly humbling) to give thought to that great stream of tradition within which we stand, rather than fondly imagine we are the first generation to face the challenge the Old Testament sets before us as Christians.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

Everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Life is brief, art is long.

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.

The best advice I can give you is this. Church tradition - especially when they do not run counter to the Faith - are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.