William Graham Sumner Quotes

William Graham Sumner — American Businessman

William Graham Sumner was a classical liberal American social scientist. He taught social sciences at Yale, where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology. He was one of the most influential teachers at Yale or any major schools. Sumner was a polymath with numerous books and essays on American history, economic history, political theory, sociology, and anthropology. He introduced the term "ethnocentrism" to identify the roots of imperialism, which he strongly opposed. He was a spokesman against imperialism and in favor of the "forgotten man" of the middle class, a term he coined. He had a long-term influence on conservatism in the United States... (wikipedia)

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.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

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.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

William Graham Sumner Quotes

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