Education Quote by John Alexander Williams

“Given our current system of property ownership, it makes sense that we would see greater wealth inequality in places where there's greater population density…

— Martin Adams

Inequality is inextricably linked with distribution of land and natural resources.

— Winnie Byanyima

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

— John D. Rockefeller

“Due to its inherently limited supply for each location, land obtains its value from the natural, social, and cultural wealth that exists in its…

— Martin Adams

“The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The homestead policy was established only after long and earnest resistance; experience proves its wisdom. The lands in the hands of industrious settlers, whose…

— Andrew Johnson

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was…

— Rush Limbaugh

“History tells us that inequality soars when societies develop.”

— Edward Luce

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

— Frederick Jackson Turner

Contrary to Piketty’s rentier hypothesis, I don’t see anyone on the [Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans] whose ancestors bought a great parcel…

— Bill Gates

“Property taxes - particularly those which tax only or primarily the land and not the improvements - are the closest approximations we have today…

— Martin Adams