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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty. — William Graham Sumner

The advantage of some is won by an equivalent loss of others. — William Graham Sumner

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. — William Graham Sumner

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. — William Graham Sumner

Now, the plan of plundering each other produces nothing. It only wastes. All — William Graham Sumner

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone. — William Graham Sumner

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none. — William Graham Sumner

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. — William Graham Sumner

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world. — William Graham Sumner

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing. — William Graham Sumner

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. — 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

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war. — William Graham Sumner

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. — William Graham Sumner

The great stream of time and earthly things will sweep on just the same in spite of us. — William Sumner

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue. — William Graham Sumner

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner

Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only — William Graham Sumner

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject ... — William Graham Sumner

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. — William Graham Sumner

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. — William Graham Sumner

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln. — William Graham Sumner

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. — William Graham Sumner

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself. — William Graham Sumner

What we prepare for is what we shall get. — William Graham Sumner

We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy. — William Graham Sumner

In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It — William Graham Sumner

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. — William Graham Sumner

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house. — William Graham Sumner

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land. — William Graham Sumner

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. — William Graham Sumner

Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays - but he always pays - yes, above all, he pays. — William Graham Sumner

When you go to a movie, it's about what's not being said. I tried to bring that to Greg Sumner. It was always about what's not being said. — William Devane

The forgotten man ... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. — William Graham Sumner

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

I kind of got inspired by [William] Wordsworth and [Samuel Taylor] Coleridge - I went the old traditional way of finding inspiration, I guess ... — Eliot Paulina Sumner

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. — William Graham Sumner

The dogmatic radicals who assail "on principle" the inherited social notions and distinctions are not serving civilization. Society — William Graham Sumner

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty. — William Graham Sumner

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune? — William Graham Sumner