Dream Quote 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…

— Henry George

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

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

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

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

The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

— Henry George

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

— Henry George

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

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

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

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

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