William Graham Sumner : (5)

" The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. " - William Graham Sumner

" 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

" A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. " - William Graham Sumner

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

" 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