Quote by William Graham Sumner Download Open image “What we prepare for is what we shall get” — William Graham Sumner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along.… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing." — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them. — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Having established as our goals a lasting world peace with justice and the security of freedom on this earth, we must be prepared to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower 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… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
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