"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, American Businessman

Dream, Dreams, Faith, Men, Losing

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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."

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

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"Perhaps they do not recognize themselves, for a rich man is even harder to define than a poor one."

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"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."

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"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."

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"We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men."

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"We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could."

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"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."

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"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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