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One Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- 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…
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
- 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…
- Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
- I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one…
- One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in…
- Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one.
- 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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