Gutzon Borglum quotes
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“The purpose of the memorial is to communicate the founding, expansion, preservation, and unification of the United States with colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.”
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“Hence, let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and rain alone shall wear them away.”
-- Gutzon Borglum
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“The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.”
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Source : "International Men’s Day" by Anne-Marie Slaughter, www.huffingtonpost.com. Match 8, 2011.
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“There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.”
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