"One thing must be granted to the rich:…" — William Graham Sumner
"One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured."
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69 Quotes by William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner has 69 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of…
- If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think…
- If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...
- If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we…
- Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them,…
- It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a…
- We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
- All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order…
- The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.
- The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must…
- History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power…
More Goodnatured Quotes
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- If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan