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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William Graham Sumner
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About William Graham Sumner
William Graham Sumner was an American Episcopal priest, social scientist, and neoclassical liberal. He taught social sciences at Yale University, where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology and became one of the most influential teachers at any major school.
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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.
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.
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.
The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.