Quotes about Legacy
Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.
- Margaret Fuller
When thee builds a prison, thee had better build with the thought ever in thy mind that thee and thy children may occupy the cells.
- Elizabeth Fry
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.
- Billy Graham
We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.
- Henry David Thoreau
I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.
- Zachary Taylor
No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
- Thomas Jefferson
America is stronger because of President Obama's leadership, and I'm better because of his friendship.
- Hillary Clinton
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
- John Donne
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction
- Ronald Reagan
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
- Marilyn Monroe