Quotes About Legacy

All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago

Mahatma Gandhi will always be remembered as long as free men and those who love freedom and justice live.

We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Our names were made for us in another century.

It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the presidency, defending us from freedom.

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest

The companionship of dead writers is a wonderful form of live friendship.

No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

When our friends are alive we see the good qualities they lack dead we remember only those they possessed.

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided.