Quotes About Legacy

I let the American people down, and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.

He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

In the end it may well be that Britain will be more honoured by the historians for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

Before such a prodigious career, judgement is torn between blame and admiration.

It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.

To many fame comes too late.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of Ewer, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at st have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

The poet's scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. The Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.