Gutzon Borglum Quotes

• 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

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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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.

  Gutzon Borglum

  Memorial, Expansion, United States

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