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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
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— 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