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Search this person’s writing:William Graham Sumner1840 - 1910About the Author
William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) was one of the founding fathers of American sociology. Although he trained as an Episcopalian clergyman, Sumner went on to teach at Yale University where he wrote his most influential works. His interests included money and tariff policy, critiques of socialism, social classes, and anti-imperialism.
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Quotations:- William Graham Sumner denounced America’s war against Spain and thought that “war, debt, taxation, diplomacy, a grand governmental system, pomp, glory, a big army and navy, lavish expenditures, political jobbery” would result in imperialsm (1898) (30 May, 2005)
- William Graham Sumner reminds us never to forget the “Forgotten Man”, the ordinary working man and woman who pays the taxes and suffers under government regulation (1883) (14 March, 2007)
- Sumner criticizes the competing vested interests and the role of legislators in the “new democratic State” (1887) (20 July, 2010)
- Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain (1898) (9 May, 2011)
- Sumner on the legalization of robbery by the State (1883) (27 February, 2012)
- Sumner’s vision of the American Republic as a confederation of free and peaceful industrial commonwealths (1898) (5 September, 2012)
- Sumner’s vision of the American Republic was a parsimonious government which had little to do (1898) (5 September, 2012)
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