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William Graham Sumner


American
1840
Businessman
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.


William Graham Sumner
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The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.


William Graham Sumner
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.


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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
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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.
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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.
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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