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William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner
American Businessman
Born: Oct 30, 1840
Died: Apr 12, 1910
Capital Country Great Man Men Property
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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
Fitness Nature Ought Dissolution Gutter Tendency He Drunkard She Him According Survived Just Where Process Which Decline Usefulness Things Set
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
Good Son Father Father's Day Enterprise He Part Wisely Self-Denial Does Judicious His Encourage Prudent Expenditure Skill Productive Good Father Believes
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. William Graham Sumner
Financial Men Greed Other Crimes Say Fraud Cases Perpetual Selfishness Undoubtedly Connection Each Things
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. William Graham Sumner
Me Property Worth Before Possess Slip More Writer No-One Allowed Opinion Dollars Than Which Newspaper Should Expresses Million Million Dollars
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
Man Practice Never Sons Economy Doctrines Known His Accumulate Did Childhood Ordinary Urge Who Earliest
One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. William Graham Sumner
Rich Must One Thing Granted Thing
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
Value Ownership Profit Increasing Beneficent State Finds Lay New Up Pioneer Land Use Who Incident Helps Foundations Grows
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. William Graham Sumner
Life Great Character Experience Enterprise Must Industrial Without Labor Any Little Who Believes Started
Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare. William Graham Sumner
Rare Men Think Tell Find Very Plan Hard Who Routine
The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. William Graham Sumner
Regretted Fortunes Large Thing
There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America. William Graham Sumner
Will Made Power Every See Indication Civilization Developments New America Capital Serve Right Here
Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable. William Graham Sumner
More More And More Indispensable Instead Becoming Infancy Being Which Capital Companies Thing Incorporated
The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. William Graham Sumner
Great Development Continent Lack Capital
We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. William Graham Sumner
Men Country Systematic Unprecedented See Rate Direction Pushed Development Capital Forward Application Competent
There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors. William Graham Sumner
Property Ought Folly Laws Against Guarantee

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