All Henry George Quotes
- Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. Awakes
- Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes. Children
- Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow,… Ask
- Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each. All
- The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor. Amount
- How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars? Dollars
- Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to… Among
- 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 of… Bare
- The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of… All
- Everybody works but the vacant lot Everybody
- I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead. Beg
- The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a… Air
- There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists. Any
- It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over. Inefficient
- Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not… Accept
- Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism. Dream
- God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each… All
- The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar… All
- For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial… Cannot Produce
- There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest… Derived