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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
William Graham Sumner
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William Graham Sumner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1840
Born: October 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 12
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Paterson
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What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
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Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.
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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.
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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.
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a man's reason and betray him against himself. Civilized men have done their fiercest fighting for doctrines.
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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be...The law of survival of the fittest was not made by man, and it cannot be abrogated by man. We can only, by interfering with it, produce the survival of the unfittest.
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Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
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The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
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