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" A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son. "

William Graham Sumner

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" I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. "

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" 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. "

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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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" Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it. "

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" I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. "

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" My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. "

" I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property. "

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" Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children. "

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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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" Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person. "

" 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. "

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" Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. "

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" Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. "

" I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. "

" The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted. "

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" We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could. "

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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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" You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. "

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" Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society. "

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" In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us. "

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" It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. "

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" One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured. "

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" I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. "

" The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay. "

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" I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers. "

" I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God. "

" One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. "