"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, American Businessman

Age, Financial, Crime, Fraud

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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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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

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"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

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"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

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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."

Control

"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

"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."

Man

"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

"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

"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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"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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"If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee."

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"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."

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"Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare."

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