Quotes: Monuments

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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.

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