Country Quote by Adam Smith

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

— Karl Marx

This is the first aspiration of countries: we are the landlords in our countries so that they remain free, and we can live in…

— Marine Le Pen

“But you must be sure of what you want the land for. And as for your tenants, if they don't own the land, don't…

— F. Sionil José

“The Law of Rent demonstrates that no single human being gives land and location its overall value - its rent. Land values arise from…

— Martin Adams

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the…

— John Stuart Mill

“whatever part of it remains after paying the rent of the land, and the price of the whole labour employed in raising, manufacturing, and…

— Adam Smith

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover,…

— John Lubbock

Men no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it, divide it into shares, prostitute it, bargain with it and treat it as…

— Tashunka Witko

“This country’s passion for property is built into the blood, a current as huge and primal as desire. Centuries of being turned out on…

— Tana French

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are…

— David Ricardo

The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the…

— Thomas Paine