Quotes about Legacy

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

Wherever a beautiful soul has been there is a trail of beautiful memories...

The past is what the present is doing now.

my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

No one shall be forgotten who was great in this world; but everyone was great in his own way, and everyone in proportion to the greatness of what he loved.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.

In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.

If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.