Classy Quote logo
  • Home
  • Categories
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Who said

William Graham Sumner Quotes

William Graham Sumner quote from classy quote

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Civil Rights Equality Liberty

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Liberty Social Classes

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Corruption Government Corruption Us Government

The forgotten man. He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of outside his little circle. ... He works he votes generally he prays but his chief business in life is to pay.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Homo Sapiens

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Self Reliance

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.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Good Father Son

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Transportation Country

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

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Land Property Individual

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.

~ William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner Nature Process She
  • Classy Quote

    ClassyQuote has been providing 500000+ famous quotes from 40000+ popular authors to our worldwide community.

  • Other Pages

    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
  • Our Products

    • Chrome Extention
    • Microsoft Edge Add-on
  • Follow Us

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
Copyright © 2025 ClassyQuote. All rights reserved.