There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No… — Henry George Copy Share Image
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in… — Henry George Copy Share Image
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. — Henry George Copy Share Image
The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a… — Henry George Copy Share Image
There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth-by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why… — Henry George Copy Share Image
It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of… — Henry George Copy Share Image
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,… — Henry George Copy Share Image
When we consider that labor is the producer of all wealth, is it not evident that the impoverishment and, dependence of labor… — Henry George Copy Share Image
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men… — Henry George Copy Share
Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are… — Henry George Copy Share
As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value… — Henry George Copy Share
In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast… — Henry George Copy Share
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to… — Henry George Copy Share
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody. — Henry George Copy Share
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of… — Henry George Copy Share
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the… — Henry George Copy Share
What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. — Henry George Copy Share
It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of… — Henry George Copy Share
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own… — Henry George Copy Share
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each. — Henry George Copy Share
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes… — Henry George Copy Share
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. — Henry George Copy Share
