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William Graham Sumner Quote: “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.”

51. “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.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.”

52. “If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer’s finger always itches.”

53. “The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer’s finger always itches.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “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.”

54. “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

William Graham Sumner Quote: “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.”

55. “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

William Graham Sumner Quote: “In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.”

56. “In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “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.”

57. “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

William Graham Sumner Quote: “I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.”

58. “I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.”

59. “The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.”

60. “There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.”

61. “The State, it cannot be too often repeated, does nothing and can give nothing which it does not take from somebody. The Forgotten Man works and votes -generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

62. “It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.”

63. “We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.”

64. “Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “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.”

65. “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.”

— William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Quote: “Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.”

66. “Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.”

— William Graham Sumner

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