What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
William Graham Sumner
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.”
“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.”
“We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.”
“History is only a tiresome repetition of one story.”
“unless restrained by checks and guarantees. There is an insolence of wealth, as there is an insolence of rank. A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. Aristocrats”
“they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They”
“there are yet mixed in our institutions mediaeval theories of protection, regulation, and authority, and”
“the friends of humanity once more appear, in their zeal to help somebody, to be trampling on those who are trying to help themselves.”
“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.”
“that rights and duties should be in equilibrium. A”
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