There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
William Graham SumnerWe live in a war of two antagonistic ethical philosophies, the ethical policy taught in the books and schools, and the success policy.
William Graham SumnerIt is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.
William Graham Sumner