Inheritance Quotes - Page 6

• It was the ideal of living in Eretz Yisrael that took me out of my house, out of my country and caused me to travel from my place. I left my house; I repudiated my inheritance...Why? Because I wished to travel to the bosom of my mother, Eretz Yisrael.

  Nahmanides

  Mother, Country, House

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• We must end the iniquitous multi-taxing of the same money. It is not right to tax people's incomes, then their savings on that income, to tax the movement of assets through capital gains tax, stamp duty and tax them again through inheritance tax if they have the audacity to die.

  Liam Fox

  People, Movement, Gains

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• Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Sadness, Defense

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• I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance of self- government, which we have acquired and shaped for them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Self, Inexperience

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.271, Cambridge University Press

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• How many ills spring from adultery? First the supreme law that is violated, Nobility oft stain'd with bastardy, Inheritance of land falsely possessed, The husband scorn'd, wife sham'd, and babes unbless'd.

  John Webster

  Husband, Spring, Law

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• But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Sweet, Brother, Tyrants

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• Your children should love the Lord, work hard, and experience the joy of trusting God. More important than leaving your children an inheritance is leaving them a spiritual heritage. If you left your children money they didn't need, and if they were thinking correctly, wouldn't they give it to God anyway? Then why not give it to God yourself, since He entrusted it to you?

  Randy Alcorn

  Spiritual, Children, Hard Work

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.77, Multnomah

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• If, then, this civilization is to be saved, if it is not to be submerged by centuries of barbarism, but to secure the treasures ofits inheritance on new and more stable foundations, there is indeed need for those now living fully to realize how far the decay has already progressed.

  Johan Huizinga

  War, Civilization, History

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• It is part of our inheritance to be, above all, secure and confident in the will of God.

  Graham Cooke

  Gods Will, Secure

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• We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Men, Rights

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• I believe that we have more capability than any other creature to control our biological inheritance - and we do so most of the time.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Capability, Creatures

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• A son could bear with great complacency, the death of his father, while the loss of his inheritance might drive him to despair.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Father, Loss, Son

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Del. Prin, Chapter XVII, 1922.

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• What a wonderful thing it is that drop of seed, from which we are produced, bears in itself the impressions, not only of the bodily shape, but of the thoughts and inclinations of our fathers!

  Michel de Montaigne

  Children, Father, Shapes

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• The right of commanding is no longer an advantage transmitted by nature; like an inheritance, it is the fruit of labors, the price of courage.

  Voltaire

  Leadership, Courage, Nature

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• I don’t know who my parents were. I know nothing about my inheritance. I could be Jewish; I could be part Negro; I could be Irish; I could be Russian. I am spiritually a mix anyway, but I did have a solid childhood fortunately, because of some wonderful women who brought me up. I never had a father or a man in the house, and that was a loss...

  James A. Michener

  Father, Loss, Men

  "Storytelling Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.

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• There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Adventure, Past, Ideas

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Illustrated)”, p.2384, Delphi Classics

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• The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so far as we are unbelievers, or, if believers, in so far as our inherited beliefs fail to represent the real problems of contemporary life) must face alone, or, at best with only tentative, impromptu, and not often very effective guidance. This is our problem as modern, "enlightened" individuals, for whom all gods and devils have been rationalized out of existence.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Religious

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• Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Belief, Creeds, Goods

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The advantage of riches remains with him who procured them, not with the heir.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Riches, Heirs, Wealth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• If the present American laws concerning the taxation of the profits of corporations, the incomes of individuals, and inheritances had been introduced about 60 years ago, all those new products whose consumption has raised the standard of living of the 'common man' would either not be produced at all or only in small quantities for the benefit of a minority. The Ford enterprises would not exist if Henry Ford's profits had been taxed away as soon as they came into being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Years, Law

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• Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.

  J. I. Packer

  Criminals, Transition, Heirs

  J. I. Packer (1997). “Great Grace: A 31-day Devotional”, Servant Publications

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• I believe that I am a child of God, endowed with a divine birthright. I believe that there is something of divinity within me and within each of you. I believe that we have a godly inheritance and that it is our responsibility, our obligation, and our opportunity to cultivate and nurture the very best of these qualities within us.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Believe, Responsibility

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• Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the principality warring against the great transfer of wealth to the Church. You must war against this spirit to see your inheritance released. Claim Jeremiah 51:44 (Bel in this verse is Baal).

  Dutch Sheets

  War, Believe, Mean

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• In the cross-over, you get to a point where you realize that you've got all this genetic inheritance, and you've got all this social conditioning, but there is a point where you do have to make a choice, and that's the optimist in me: you have the freedom to make a choice about how you are going to be, and what you're going to do.

  Irvine Welsh

  Choices, Over You, Realizing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

  John Lubbock

  Eye, Land, Management

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