The forgotten man. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. William Graham Sumner More William Graham Sumner Quotes 0
All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burden of life from their own shoulders upon those of ot. William Graham Sumner More William Graham Sumner Quotes 0
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. William Graham Sumner More William Graham Sumner Quotes 0
It is the supreme test of a system of government whether its machinery is adequate for repressing the selfish undertakings of cliques formed on special interests and saving the public from raids of plunderers. William Graham Sumner More William Graham Sumner Quotes 0
[I]t is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind. William Graham Sumner More William Graham Sumner Quotes 0
It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent. William Graham Sumner More William Graham Sumner Quotes 0