Quotes by : William Graham Sumner

Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and....

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated....

The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes....

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not....

A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready....

What we prepare for is what we shall get.

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

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things.....