Century Quote by Henry George

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“The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.”

Henry George

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

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