Henry George Quotes

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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 folly.…
• That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.
• Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
• The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
• He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
• He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to…
• Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a…
• For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
• How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in…
• Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
• That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
• The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
• The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
• Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall…
• Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
• What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
• The people must think because the people alone can act.
• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench…
• A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.
• No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will…

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