" The produce of the earth is a gift from our gracious creator to the inhabitants, and to impoverish the earth to support outward greatness appears to be an injury to the succeeding age." -Quaker John Woolman (1720-1772) 

John Dalton (1766-1844 -The father of Chemistry) "...was a singeular Man a quaker by profession & practice: He had none of the manners or ways of the world. "