Quotes About Legacy

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.

I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.

I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France.

We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

To an old leader will be born an idiot heir, weak both in knowledge and in war.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

That old man...had my division massacred at Gettysburg!

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.

After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.