“Riches should come as the reward for hard work, preferably one's forebears.”
Steven Runciman (1903–2000) British historian
A Traveller's Alphabet (London: Thames and Hudson, 1991); quoted in The Times Literary Supplement, February 2, 2001.
“He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.”
Statement about Richard Nixon, as quoted in an article by Joe Sharkey in The New York Times (12 March 2000)
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Mitt Romney (1947) American businessman and politician
2016, Remarks on Donald Trump and the 2016 race
“Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.”
Imelda Marcos (1929) Former First Lady of the Philippines
On how Ferdinand Marcos became wealthy, as quoted in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (March 1998).
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 43.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher
The viceadmiral thought his son crazy; but soon discovered he was a Quaker. He then employed every method that prudence could suggest to engage him to behave and act like other people. The youth answered his father only with repeated exhortations to turn Quaker also. After much altercation, his father confined himself to this single request, that he would wait on the king and the duke of York with his hat under his arm, and that he would not "thee" and "thou" them. William answered that his conscience would not permit him to do these things. This exasperated his father to such a degree that he turned him out of doors. Young Penn gave God thanks that he permitted him to suffer so early in His cause, and went into the city, where he held forth, and made a great number of converts; and being young, handsome, and of a graceful figure, both court and city ladies flocked very devoutly to hear him. The patriarch Fox, hearing of his great reputation, came to London — notwithstanding the length of the journey — purposely to see and converse with him. They both agreed to go upon missions into foreign countries; and accordingly they embarked for Holland, after having left a sufficient number of laborers to take care of the London vineyard.
The History of the Quakers (1762)
Nastassja Kinski (1961) German actress
On Roman Polanski, as quoted in Nastassja Kinski: June 2004 Interview with Tony Bray http://www.nastassja-kinski.jp/article/tvnow_jun04/index.html
Ilana Mercer South African writer
" The Declaration of Independence No Longer Expresses the American Mind http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/07/the_declaration_no_longer_expresses_the_american_mind.html," American Thinker, July 4, 2017 <br class="br">2010s, 2017 <br class="br">Variant: Thomas Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.
