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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
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Property is the most fundamental and complex of social facts, and the most important of human interests; it is, therefore, the hardest to understand, the most delicate to meddle with, and the easiest to dogmatize about.
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I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property.
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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William Graham Sumner
Born:
October 30, 1840
Died:
April 12, 1910
(aged 69)
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