Quotes About Legacy

This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you.

As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.

Now he belongs to the ages.

Zhukov was the most successful commander of World War II, who fell from grace under Khrushchev, but never lost his place in the pantheon of Soviet heroes.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

The shot heard round the world.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.

I'm Beginning To Wonder If It Would Have Been Best Had The South Won The Civil War.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.

My enemies make appointments at my tomb.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Slavery can never be abolished.

Having been born into the house of a warrior, one's intentions should be to grasp the long and the short swords and to die.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire.