Phrase by 'William Graham Sumner'

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Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Life , Man , Nature , Happiness


A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Good , Father , Son , Skill


It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Land , Jealousy , Individual , Property


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.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Never , Man , Childhood , Practice


Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Say , Men , Greed , Fraud


A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Process , Nature , She , Fitness


The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  New , Live , Age , Law


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.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  New , Value , Ownership , Profit


It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Society , Class , Organization , Force


I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.

Author: William Graham Sumner - American Businessman
  Me , Newspaper , Opinion , Worth


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