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> [The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-fundamental-principle-of-human-action-the-law-that-is-to/)

[Henry George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-george/)

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## More by Henry George

> [No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/no-theory-is-too-false-no-fable-too-absurd-no-superstition-too/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/private-ownership-of-land-is-the-nether-mill-stone-material-progress/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/as-it-becomes-more-and-more-difficult-to-get-land-so-will-the-virtual/)

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> [In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/in-all-the-new-states-of-the-union-land-monopolization-has-gone-on-at/)

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> [The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-ideal-social-state-is-not-that-in-which-each-gets-an-equal-amount/)

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> [The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-state-it-cannot-too-often-be-repeated-does-nothing-and-can-give/)

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> [It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/it-is-not-from-top-to-bottom-that-societies-die-it-is-from-bottom-to/)

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> [That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/that-amid-our-highest-civilization-men-faint-and-die-with-want-is-not/)

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> [I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/i-do-not-think-that-any-sorrow-of-youth-or-manhood-equalled-in/)

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> [What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/what-protectionism-teaches-us-is-to-do-to-ourselves-in-time-of-peace/)

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> [It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/it-is-too-narrow-an-understanding-of-production-which-confines-it/)

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> [It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/it-is-not-the-business-of-government-to-make-men-virtuous-or/)

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> [Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/social-progress-makes-the-well-being-of-all-more-and-more-the/)

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> [Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/let-no-man-imagine-that-he-has-no-influence-whoever-he-may-be-and/)

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> [The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-george/the-value-of-a-thing-is-the-amount-of-laboring-or-work-that-its/)

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