Quotes William Graham Sumner

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, accor...

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage ente...

A great deal is said about the unearned increment from land,...

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industr...

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by ...

Furthermore, it seems to me certain that all aggregated capi...

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the...

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresse...

I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did no...

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must ...

If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the ...

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a ...

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if r...

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in lan...

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the mi...

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorpor...

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effor...

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the...

Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not ...

Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on l...

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured....

Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is ...

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to b...

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of c...

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays,...