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
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 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
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
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
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — 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 never heard… — 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 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — 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 that means… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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