Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
“They took it for more than it was, or anyhow for more than it said; the container was greater than the thing contained, and… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
No one of Lincoln's old acquaintances in this city ever heard of his conversion to Christianity by Dr. Smith or anyone else. It was never suggested nor thought of here until after his death… I never saw him read a second of time in Dr. Smith's book on Infidelity. He threw at down upon our table - spit upon it… — William Herndon Copy Share
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Can anyone imagine that the masterfulness, the overbearing disposition, the greed of gain, and the ruthlessness in methods, which are the faults of the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches. — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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 somebody else. I would spend any conceivable amount of zeal and eloquence if I possessed it to try to make people grasp this idea. Capital is force. If it goes one way it cannot go… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share
The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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