#pro

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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#does #encourage #enterprise #expenditure #father

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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter

I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#before #dollars #expresses #i #me

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#finds #foundations #grows #helps #incident

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

#doctrines #exaggerated #goes #individual #jealousy

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#because #crime #criminal #criminal law #denounce

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. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#between #capital #communication #country #enormous

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

— William Graham Sumner

#folly #guarantee #laws #ought #possessors

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes. ↗

— Jeremy Sumpter

#appropriate #been #during #i #laugh

If I had my own Neverland it would probably be the coolest place in the world. You could do anything you want there. There would be trees everywhere. ↗

— Jeremy Sumpter

#coolest #could #everywhere #had #i