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Legacy Quotes

"If you died tomorrow, are there three things that your eulogists could say you did to make the world a better place for your having lived in it?"

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another"

"History is almost always written by the victors"

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."

"For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"

"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time"

"Realize from early on that the world passes away, but the relic of a pious person remains"

"Posterity, you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it"

"No legacy is so rich as honesty"

"I shall not wholly die; much of me will escape Death"

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died Rather we should thank God that such men lived"

"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow."

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry"

"A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated"

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