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He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
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There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.
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A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.
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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.
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The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.
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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
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There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.
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The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
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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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The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
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There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.
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There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
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If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject...
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The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
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Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
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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.
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It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
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We live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
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What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
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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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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.
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Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.
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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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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
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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.
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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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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
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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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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
William Graham Sumner
Born:
October 30, 1840
Died:
April 12, 1910
(aged 69)
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