#memorials

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place. ↗

— Dan Rather

#cannot #first #forget #had #history

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

#jefferson #libraries #lincoln #memorials #now

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience. ↗

— Henry Waxman

#conscience #memorials #modern #our #relics

After I was banned from the cemetery, I held a memorial for our fallen soldiers. But hugging a statue just isn’t the same as cuddling a veteran's skeleton. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #memorials #veterans #funny

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame