Inheritance Quotes

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

Society is a partnership not only by those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man.

I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!

Am I then, the Grand Prince, not free to dispose of my sons and my throne? I shall give it to whom I please.

The right amount of money to leave children is enough money so that they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.

I succeed him. No one can replace him.

By ancestry, I was born to rule.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Keep working and saving and striving for a better future for your children, and for their children, even if you won't be around to see it pay off.

I love, love, love my grandparents.

I took the 'Lee' from my grandparents, who took care of me during the day while my mom was away working.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights

‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

The past is a present force.

The money that bin Laden inherited was about 20 million dollars over the course of many years, not the much larger sums some have suggested. In 1994, his family cut him off.

Draw great strength from your family and give in turn to those who come after you.