THE FORGOTTEN MAN
As soon as A observes which seems to him to be wrong, from which X is suffering, A talks it over with B and they propose to get a law passed to remedy the evil and help X. Their law always proposes to determine what C shall do for X or what A, B and C can do for X. I want to look up C to show you the manner of a man he is. I call him the Forgotten Man. Perhaps the appellation is not strictly correct. He is the man who is never thought of....He works, he votes, generally he prays - but he always pays...."
William Graham Sumner
Yale 1883
"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson
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