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.
William Graham SumnerThe forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.
William Graham SumnerWhat 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.
William Graham SumnerIf America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.
William Graham SumnerIf any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of strict scientific thinking in sociology, and a hard-hearted skeptic as regards any scheme of social amelioration. He will always want to know, Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?
William Graham Sumner