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William Graham Sumner

  • A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
    William Graham Sumner
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee.
    William Graham Sumner
  • 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.
    William Graham Sumner
  • It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
    William Graham Sumner
  • It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
    William Graham Sumner
  • It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
    William Graham Sumner
  • Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
    William Graham Sumner
  • 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
  • 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
  • Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.
    William Graham Sumner
  • Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
    William Graham Sumner
  • One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
    William Graham Sumner
  • Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
    William Graham Sumner

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