"Baltimore uprooted General Lee under the cover of night. New Orleans removed its four Confederate statues to mixed re…"

"There’s no easy answer when the monument in question is carved into a mountain, when Confederate generals continue to…"

"He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!"

"Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered."

"The righteous require no monuments; their lives and their teachings are their monuments."

"Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siècles vous contemplent."

"Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies."

"Jove, thou regent of the skies."

"The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud."

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."