"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
-William Graham Sumner
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"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.“
-William Graham Sumner
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"A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness."
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"The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous."
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"The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
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