"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, American Businessman

Land, Ownership, Profit, State

25

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Land quotes

"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

Cathy McMorris, American Politician

Land, Living

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

Kalpana Chawla, American Astronaut

Land, Stars

"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young."

Paul Tsongas, American Politician

Land, Water

"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes."

Hernando Cortes, Spanish Leader

Land, Water

"Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise."

Herbert Croly, American Author

Land, Ocean, Promise, States

"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

Land, Ownership

"There are but few naval powers, but there are many land powers."

Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician

Land,

"This morning's scene is good and fine, Long rain has not harmed the land."

Du Fu, Chinese Poet

Land, Rain

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

W. E. B. Du Bois, American Writer

Land, Man, Poor, Race

"I will burn your city, your land, your self."

Hulagu Khan, Mongolian Leader

Land, Self, Will

Explore more quotes by William Graham Sumner

"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."

Work

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

Property

"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."

Communication

"Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare."

Law

"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."

Society

"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."

Man

"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."

Land

"There is every indication that we are to see new developments of the power of aggregated capital to serve civilization, and that the new developments will be made right here in America."

Power

"Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual."

Man

"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."

Dream