Gordon S. Wood Quote

Do not give to persons able to work for a living, declared a critic of the traditional paternalistic charity in 1807. Do not support widows who refuse to put out their children. Do not let the means of support be made easier to one who does not work than to those who do.

Gordon S. Wood

Do not give to persons able to work for a living, declared a critic of the traditional paternalistic charity in 1807. Do not support widows who refuse to put out their children. Do not let the means of support be made easier to one who does not work than to those who do.

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About Gordon S. Wood

Gordon Stewart Wood (born November 27, 1933) is an American historian and professor at Brown University. He is a recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992). His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 (1969) won the 1970 Bancroft Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.