Quotes About Legacy

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961]

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

YaÅŸamak yeterince zor, ölmekse büyük iÅŸti.

And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.

These days, we listen to our children, not they to us. Given what we've done to the planet, perhaps they have a point. Tasked with passing the baton, like hundreds of generations before us, my team has fumbled the handoff.

Cancer may rob me of my physical powers. But it cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. Those parts of me will live on forever." The

Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by his men. But Washington's character was superior to that of his rival, and it made him a great man, whereas Gates was merely a good soldier.

Washington had learned the secrets of inducing others to follow his lead. Washington probably knew more about leadership before he celebrated his twenty-fifth birthday than John Adams discovered in his lifetime.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have the liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecutre, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

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The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future

There's an old saying that victory has hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

Someday they will name a big airport after me, until then I'll just eat this lovely sandwich.

You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. (When asked how he would choose to die)

I'll build mine tomorrow," Horace said through a mouthful of food. "This is excellent, Will! When I have grandchildren, I'll name them all after you!

Executing a criminal often makes a martyr of him. Once he's dead and gone, people all too often forget the crimes he's committed and start to see a more sanitised version. A person like that starts to be seen as a victim.