William Graham Sumner Quotes - Page 4

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• Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

  William Graham Sumner

  Hygiene, Organization, Indulge In

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.40, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

  William Graham Sumner

  Development, Continents

  "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other".

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• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Hype, Greed

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.41, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

  William Graham Sumner

  Human Nature, Trouble, Reconstruction

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• I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

  William Graham Sumner

  Dollars, Opinion, Newspapers

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

  William Graham Sumner

  Destiny, Political, Over You

  William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”

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• Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.

  William Graham Sumner

  Wise, People, Annoyed

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• Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

  William Graham Sumner

  Men, Law, Liberty

  William Graham Sumner (2007). “The Forgotten Man and Other Essays”, p.472, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

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  Growing Up, Land, Foundation

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office; his name never gets into the newspaper except when he gets married or dies. He keeps production going on.... He does not frequent the grocery or talk politics at the tavern. Consequently, he is forgotten.... All the burdens fall on him, or on her, for it is time to remember that the Forgotten Man is not seldom a woman.

  William Graham Sumner

  Fall, Men, Names

  "The Forgotten Man" (1883) See Franklin Roosevelt 3

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• The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

  William Graham Sumner

  Life, Men, House

  William Graham Sumner (1913). “Earth-hunger and other essays”

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• Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

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  William Graham Sumner (1943). “The Forgotten Man's Almanac: Rations of Common Sense from William Graham Sumner”

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