William Graham Sumner

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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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

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Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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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

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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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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

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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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