Freedom Quote by William Graham Sumner

“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.”

William Graham Sumner

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The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

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Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard…

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The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.

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Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

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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…

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The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning…

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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…

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