Quotes about Legacy

We cannot escape history.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.

In the good days remember also death.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

The awareness of a spiritual tradition that reaches through the centuries gives one a certain feeling of security in the face of all transitory difficulties.

The authority of this poor child will grow (Isa. 9:7). It will encompass all the earth, and knowingly or unknowingly, all human generations until the end of the ages will have to serve it.

To talk of going down fighting like heroes in the face of certain defeat is not really heroic at all, but merely a refusal to face the future. The ultimate question for a responsible man to ask is not how he is to extricate himself heroically from the affair, but how the coming generation is to live. It is only from this question, with its responsibility towards history, that fruitful solutions can come, even if for the time being they are very humiliating.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Leading Democrats founded the Ku Klux Klan in the late nineteenth century and then, after Republicans shut it down, revived it in the early twentieth century.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.