Quotes about Legacy

There is one great society alone on earth:The noble Living and the noble Dead.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

Enough, if something from our hands have powerTo live, and act, and serve the future hour.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.

Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

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.