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 waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the....

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....

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial,....

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

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them....

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