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. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
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. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
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 Read 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. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
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. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
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. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
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. William Graham Sumner Read Quote
