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From Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task…
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the…
- The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has…
- 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…
- 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…
- The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall…
- The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works…
- Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
- 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.
- Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social…
- 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 from…
- Ideals are very often formed in the effort to escape from the hard task of dealing with facts, which is the function of science and…
- It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special…
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the…
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