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William Graham Sumner Quotes: It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
         

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.


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



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If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.



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



The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

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There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.



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.

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.





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