In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life. . . . The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.
William Graham SumnerAny one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
William Graham SumnerNine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.
William Graham Sumner