Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Ten thousand years from now our civilization will have passed without leaving a trace. A new race of people will inhabit the earth. They… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Motherhood is heroism. It is God-given, and yet men treat women as though of similar common clay, when in fact they are but lower… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Beauty is like a soul that hovers over the surface of form. Its presence is unmistakable in art or in life. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Out of the west came Lincoln, and all that he had he gave to the preservation of the Union that had been bought so… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Art in America should be American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish adherence to… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated. — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson,… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
