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

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

History is only written from what remains.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

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