Quotes About Legacy

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

Many a man looking death, or simply compromise, in the face has been spared the label coward because his faith was bolstered by the memory of heroes who walked before him.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

I am a war president.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

Although the war in which you fought took place more than half-a-century ago, your courage, your sacrifice and your patriotism reaches through the decades and inspires us today.

Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.

We are the people who won the Second World War and saved the world. We went to the moon. We gave the world the cell phone and Bruce Springsteen. There's no telling what we can accomplish.

From the outset, I conceived Star Wars as a series of six films, or two trilogies.

In order to successfully impersonate men, the woman [Margaret Thatcher] launched a war.

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was fair Scotland's spear, And broken was her shield!

My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years' War.

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.

There was an unbelievable amount of animosity in that war [for America Independence] which people have forgotten, which was still around 50 years later.

War is just what we do. Yet, of course, the effects of it are repeatedly deeper, then deeper, then deeper.

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

You think history is going to remember the United States as a great democracy? No, they're going to think of us as a nation that became addicted to war. They'll call us warlords.

Star Wars is one of a handful of films that changed the zeitgeist forever.