William Graham Sumner Quotes and its meanings

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William Graham Sumner has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about business, communication, dreams, faith, fitness & jealousy. People always share Business quotes, Communication quotes, dreams, faith, fitness & jealousy from his literary works.

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Here are the top most famous quotes by William Graham Sumner.

• The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
• The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.
• 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.
• A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
• It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.