Quotes About Legacy

Tully Dawson made himself new to the world, and ripe for the glories of that summer, by showing he was unlike his father.

Bush was the great "tragedy,"3 but Obama has become the great hypocrite. He took on the mantle of his predecessor's wars and expanded on his powers just as Bush had expanded on Clinton's.

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

His high, uplifting oratory during the Second World War was clearly prefigured more than thirty years earlier.

It is foolish to waste lamentations upon the closing phase of human life. Noble spirits yield themselves willingly to the successively falling shades which carry them to a better world or to oblivion.

Andrew Roberts

What is now clear', wrote Leslie Rowan a quarter of a century later, 'is that Greece would not have been a free country had it not been for Churchill's courage and grasp of the essential.

la ausencia de la fe cristiana había determinado que el credo churchilliano girase en torno al imperio británico.

Great men are seldom nice men.

Napoleone di Buonaparte, as he signed himself until manhood, was born in Ajaccio, one of the larger towns on the Mediterranean island of Corsica, just before noon on Tuesday, August 15, 1769.

No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon

Andrew Roberts

Shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday, 24 January 1965, the noble heart of Sir Winston Spencer-Churchill beat its last.

Churchill's written output was similarly immense. He published 6.1 million words in thirty-seven books – more than Shakespeare and Dickens combined – and delivered five million in public speeches, not counting his voluminous letter- and memorandum-writing.

we could all die without regretting life.'35

Nelson, the Bible and the island of

Napoleon taught ordinary people that they could make history, and convinced his followers they were taking part in an adventure, a pageant, an experiment, an epic whose splendour would draw the attention of posterity for centuries to come.

More books have been written with Napoleon in the title than there have been days since his death in 1821.

In fact, I didn't really want to have final words at all, unless they involved something like, "At last, I have transcended beyond the boundaries of my frail human existence.

Undoubtedly from training with the dueling cane. Thanks, Dad. Really great parenting there.

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

What kind of world did our fathers abandon us to?

Monsters make monsters make monsters.

According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.