All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.


The Forgotten Man: And Other Essays (ed. 1919)

William Graham Sumner Quotes

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth...

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth...

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth...

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win the joys of earth...