The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. — Henry George Copy Share Image
That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right. — Henry George Copy Share Image
A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster. — Henry George Copy Share Image
I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge. — Henry George Copy Share Image
There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top. — Henry George Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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