#Legacy Quotes

“I say, without characters, fame lives long.”

“Tongues I'll hang on every treeThat shall civil sayings show. . . .”

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

“Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,Live regist'red upon our brazen tombsAnd then grace us in the disgrace of death;When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,Th' endeavor of this present breath may buyThat honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edgeAnd make us heirs of all eternity.”

“Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?”

“Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.”

“After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.”

“And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And asleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me must be heard of, say, I taught thee.”

“He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.”

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.”

“And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.”

“Either our history shall with full mouthSpeak freely of our acts, or else our grave,Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,Not worshipped with a waxen epitaph.”

“But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.”

“Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in theeCalls back the lovely April of her prime...”

“The world leaves no track in space, and the greatest action of man no mark in the vast idea.”

“I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.”

“Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.”

“When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear.”

“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

“Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato,--at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to his categories.”

“From this day forward until the end of the world...we in it shall be remembered...we band of brothers.”

“If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is filled with grooms and gazers, that we turn from the people, to find relief in the majestic men that are suggested by the pictures and the architecture.”

“But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?”

“How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!”

“The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.”

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;And Time the ruined bridge has sweptDown the dark stream which seaward creeps.On this green bank, by this soft stream,We set to-day a votive stone;That memory may their deed redeem,When, like our sires, our sons are gone.”

“A person's life is limited but serving the people is limitless. I want to devote my limited life to serving the people limitlessly.”

“There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.”

“If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.”

“Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?”

“Genius appeals to the future.”

“Earth proudly wears the Parthenon As the best gem upon her zone.”

“Our statute is a currency which we stamp with our own portrait.”

“What thing, in honor, had my father lost,That need to be revived and breathed in me?”

“Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!”

“What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!”

“I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.”

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”

“But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.”

“This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.”

“in black ink my love may still shine bright.”

“To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.”

“I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”

“...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.”

“If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.”

“If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both”

“We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?”

“Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.”

“Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”

“it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.”