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«The forgotten man. . . . He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.»
«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.»
«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»
«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.»
«Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.»
Author: William Graham Sumner
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by law, civil law, civil liberties, civil liberty, employment, exclusive, guaranteed, institutions, status, welfare
«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
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burdens, crush, crush out, middle class, social class, social classes, social organization, The Middle Class, The Social
«Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.»
«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.»
Author: William Graham Sumner
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dictation
«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»
«What we prepare for is what we shall get.»
Author: William Graham Sumner
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prepare for
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