Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, — William Graham Sumner
Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action. — William Graham Sumner
The Forgotten Man… delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying — William Graham Sumner
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. — William Graham Sumner
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill — William Graham Sumner
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be — William Graham Sumner
Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions — William Graham Sumner
Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the united states as a gain to the first comers — William Graham Sumner
I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one — William Graham Sumner
I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons — William Graham Sumner
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence — William Graham Sumner
Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can — William Graham Sumner
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing — William Graham Sumner