We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
William Graham SumnerThe great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
William Graham SumnerHere we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and it will read, Mind your own business. It is nothing but the doctrine of liberty. Let every man be happy in his own way.
William Graham SumnerI never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation.
William Graham Sumner