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Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.
William Graham Sumner
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William Graham Sumner
Age: 69 †
Born: 1840
Born: October 30
Died: 1910
Died: April 12
Anthropologist
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Paterson
New Jersey
William Graham
William Grayham
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Darwin
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner
It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
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The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
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The real danger of democracy is, that the classes which have the power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties-that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those-who-have.
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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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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
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The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
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I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
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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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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.
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A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
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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 men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham Sumner
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
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Yet we are constantly annoyed, and the legislatures are kept constantly busy, by the people who have made up their minds that it is wise and conducive to happiness to live in a certain way, and who want to compel everybody else to live in their way.
William Graham Sumner
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
William Graham Sumner
If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.
William Graham Sumner
What we prepare for is what we shall get
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