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Man Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for…
- 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…
- 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…
- A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a…
- Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of…
- The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
- Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
More Man Quotes
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
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