Monuments Quotes
On what we build to remember.
These quotes look at monuments from several angles: one reflects soberly on the historical risk of the Holocaust being reduced to a distant memorial rather than remembered fully, while others describe Archaeological sites or call mountains nature's own monuments.
The risk of the Holocaust is not that it will be forgotten, but that it will be embalmed and surrounded by monuments and used to absolve all future sins.
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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.
When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.
Absolve Quotes
I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.
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.
Why should the Eisenhower memorial be over twice the size of WWII Memorial? Why should it be so vast as to comfortably house two Lincoln Memorials, two Washington Monuments, and two Jefferson Memorials - all six at once?
Against Quotes
Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.
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...
The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.
Always Quotes
Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don't matter.
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.
