Comfortably Quote by Leon Krier

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the…

— Susan Eisenhower

But monument themselves memorials need.

— George Crabbe

“We may go bigger with our presidential funerals than necessary, or than the president wanted; our monuments may be large, controversial, expensive, and hard…

— Brady Carlson

If you look at the history of presidential memorials, it takes a long time to get them done.

— Susan Eisenhower

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr.…

— Leon Krier

If you're going to come to D.C. and it's your first time here, see the view from the bottom of the Washington Monument, looking…

— Sean Doolittle

By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the…

— David Brinkley

They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The Washington Monument is just one part of the original design - there were due to be another thirty or so columns and statues…

— Jack Goldstein

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told…

— Gutzon Borglum

I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues.…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Arlington National cemetery is huge! But that’s not surprising, because DC is the world’s largest graveyard of good ideas and intentions. Politicians are natural…

— Jarod Kintz