“I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Repudiating a royal debt (August 1651)
Remarks to newspaper executives (3 October 2005), as quoted in "Horror as Cameron brandishes the B-word" by Andrew Pierce, in The Times (5 October 2005), page 9.
2000s, 2005
“I am neither heir nor executor to Charles Stuart.”
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658) English military and political leader
Repudiating a royal debt (August 1651)
Julia Caroline Dorr (1825–1913) American writer
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 455.
“The young are really the heirs to a generation of incompetence.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
1970s, Culture Is Our Business (1970)
“Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 50.
“4368. That Patient is not like to recover, that makes the Doctor his Heir.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : He's a Fool that makes his Doctor his Heir.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Fascism presented itself not only as an alternative, but also as the heir to socialism.”
Jacob Talmon (1916–1980) Polish-born Israeli historian; Professor of Modern History; studied Cold War and totalitarianism; anti-Marx…
Source: The Myth of the Nation and the Vision of Revolution: The Origins of Ideological Polarization in the 20th Century, (1981), p. 501
“Heir entirs Flattery new landit owt of France. (in Scottish)”
David Lindsay (1490–1554) Scottish noble and poet
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Stage direction, line 601
Vox Day (1968) writer, actor, video game designer, blogger, far-right activist
On The ‘Throne Of Bones’: A Q and A With Vox Day http://speculativefaith.lorehaven.com/on-the-throne-of-bones-a-q-and-a-with-vox-day/ (January 18, 2013)