William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes

It's not how fast you get there, but how long you stay.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

That lasting things do, in fact, last.

A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.

Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.

But I think it's important that things endure.

Charles Miller cannot bring down my government.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

Let it endure forever

This will last, Mr. President, as long as you are President and beyond.

Holding It Down

The relationships I have in Baltimore will never change.

That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.

We gon' be around for a long time.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.

There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last more than 200 years. Weve got to continue to sustain the system, and the only way you can do it is by sustaining the constitution and by confronting lies face to face, head on, aggressively.

May you have a strong foundation when the winds of change shift...and may you be forever young.

May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.