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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.

The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

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.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

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.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

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?

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.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

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