
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability
Quoted in 50 Military Leaders Who Changed the World (2007) by William Weir, p. 173
Unsourced variant: Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. Anything built by man, can be destroyed by him.
Source: I Had the Right to Remain Silent...But I Didn't Have the Ability
“The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.”
Essex's Device (1595)
Letter to George Washington (November 1779)
“Those who do monumental work don't need monuments.”
After 50 years what democracy is this?
“The absence of a monument can, in its own way, be something of a monument also.”
Source: This Immortal (1965), p. 60
“No man has the right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation.”
Cork address (1885)