Quotes About Legacy

Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.

Children are our most valuable natural resource.

The supreme purpose of history is a better world.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.

Older men declare war, but it is the youth that must fight and die.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

I'm the only person of distinction who's ever had a depression named after him.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.

I would like, at the end, to be able to see the tree outside the bedroom window, to sit or lie on the flower-filled sun porch, ... to feel that the children and friends, if they wanted to visit, could come to the place of beauty that [we] had shaped.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Als das Grundgesetz entstandt, zitterte förmlich der Boden, auf dem es geschrieben wurde.

What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.

Zij zal nog leven als ik dood zal zijn, ze zal me misschien niet vergeten zijn als ik uit de voetnoten ben verdwenen.

My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!

Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

I find it devastatingly sad that a woman could disappear to this extent, leaving no trace other than a daughter who barely remembers her.