Quotes About Legacy

Our greatest heritage is intangible.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.' I think I'd like them to remember me by saying, 'She opened government to everyone.'

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

The nearest thing to immortality in this world is a government bureau.

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

That's what the Ivy League is. And many of the people there are legacy. Their families went there; their families are in government. The kids go there.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.

Let your only graduation be in the grave.

I don't want to be remembered as a good goalkeeper. I want to be remembered as a great person.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.