A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject... — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees,… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Man... works, he votes, generally he prays-but he always pays-yes, above all, he pays. He does not want an office;… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say,… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
Whatever capital you divert to the support of a shiftless and good-for-nothing person is so much diverted from some other employment, and that means… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
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… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
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