Monuments

"The righteous require no monuments; their lives and their teachings are their monuments."

"The tapring pyramid, the Egyptians pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud."

"Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument."

"If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon mens immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity."

"Where Londons column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies."

"Baltimore uprooted General Lee under the cover of night. New Orleans removed its four Confederate statues to mixed reactions—some voicing relief, others, disapproval. And with the violence that followed the events in Charlottesville, when white nationalists killed one counter-protestor and injured 19 more, the question of how America deals with its history of racism has continued to grow in urgency."

"He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!"

"Jove, thou regent of the skies."

"Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siècles vous contemplent."

"You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God."

"There’s no easy answer when the monument in question is carved into a mountain, when Confederate generals continue to provoke strong emotions. What the debate boils down to is whose version of history will endure. And even when you have a 1,000-foot-granite wall at your disposal, it will never be enough space to capture the complexity of the nation’s centuries-long struggle with the legacy of slavery."

"Incisa notis marmora publicis, Per quæ spiritus et vita redit bonis Post mortem ducibus."