Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.
I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington D.C. and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.
If you seek Hamilton's monument look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson but live in Hamilton's country a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.
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.
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.
I think that's become passe but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it then that's a noble project.
Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
Death comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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.