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Great Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals
- Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
- 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 great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
- The Forgotten Man... delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... but he…
- 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,…
- Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
- Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great…
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