There ought to be no laws to guarantee property against the folly of its possessors.
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What we prepare for is what we shall get.William Graham Sumner
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.
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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.
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If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
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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.
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