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It is not the State's function to make people happy
Drawn from what William Graham Sumner said
What William Graham Sumner actually said
- William Graham Sumner American sociologist (1840 to 1910)
It is not at all the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk.
Where this was said
↗What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883)gutenberg.org
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