Death Quote by Marguerite Gardiner

There is great incongruity in this idea of monuments, since those to whom they are usually dedicated need no such recognition to embalm their…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Most monuments are not something you're going to keep me out of. And I go to a lot of monuments.

— Rob Huebel

“They strike one, above all, as giving no account of themselves in any terms already consecrated by human use; to this inarticulate state they…

— Henry James

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

— Claes Oldenburg

Our public monuments are memorials to the Enlightenment.

— Mason Cooley

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the…

— James A. Garfield

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to…

— Samuel Johnson

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one; that is, who have raised themselves a monument in the minds and memories of…

— William Hazlitt

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

— Henry Waxman

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

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments…

— John Lothrop Motley

“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional,…

— Mitch Landrieu