Society needs first of all to be free from meddlers – that is, to be let alone.
William Graham Sumner Quotes
It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.
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| Birth: | 30th October, 1840 |
| Death: | 12th April, 1910 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Academic, Anthropologist, Critic, Historian |
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