legacy Quotes

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God - my daughter to my country.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.