William Graham Sumner Quotes

There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

William Graham Sumner

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• Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.

  

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• I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and forgot the time, whether was conversation, movie, or a game I was playing. That was my definition of happiness. And I was least happy when I was all over the place, distracted and restless.

  

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• There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Law
  • Property
  • Guarantees