Quotes About Legacy

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The exercise of power in this century has meant for all of us in the United States not arrogance, but agony.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

I acknowledged that I owed my presidency to People Power. I resolved during my presidency that I would in turn empower the people.

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Congress is not a party which fades when not in power

So you come soon to power, but you have merely inherited the crisis and yours is the profit of cancer.

Words have longer lives than people.

Whence has come thy lasting power.

The power of narrative sort of defines something forever and ever.

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.