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Classes Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order…
- Gentlemen, the time is coming when there will be two great classes, Socialists, and Anarchists. The Anarchists want the government to be nothing, and the…
- The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that…
- 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,…
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