What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.

For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, time.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

Your empire is now like a tyranny: it may have been wrong to take it; it is certainly dangerous to let it go.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.