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The man who started with the notion that the world owed him a living would once more find, as he does now, that the world pays him its debt in the state prison.

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Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

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If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

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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.

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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

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William Graham Sumner

William Graham Sumner

Born: October 30, 1840
Died: April 12, 1910 (aged 69)
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