A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

William Graham Sumner
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More Quotes By William Graham Sumner
  1. We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

  2. Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

  3. The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

  4. 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.

  5. A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

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