Dick Cheney Quotes

To have a statue of you up 100 years from now at the Superdome, I think that's amazing.

Nobody will go on being remembered for a very long time, unless you're Shakespeare or Milton. I have no hope of being remembered at all.

I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

… the whole earth is the sepulcher of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives.

Oh, you know, your legacy's all you're gonna be remembered by.

How many other people get a chance to be remembered forever? And that's what I really want. I want to be remembered forever.

I want my name to be remembered for 1,000 years. That way, I will never be forgotten when I'm done inside the ring.

Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

I think in some ways it's good to have at least one thing for which you could be really immortal, you know?

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.

The President of today is the postage stamp of tomorrow.

We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us.

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

It sure is a nice feeling to know that people will remember you after you're gone, that you'll manage to be a little bit of history.

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.