Economic justice Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher…

— Thomas Jefferson

The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the…

— Thomas Paine

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

— Thomas More

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the…

— Henry George

For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at…

— Thomas Sowell

Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood;…

— Pope Pius XI

“To my mind, governments are bound to provide against unemployment so far as they may, and then to provide for the unemployed. It is…

— Joseph Casper Husslein

Men did not make the earth. It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. Every…

— Thomas Paine

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from…

— Thomas Jefferson

“God who distributed the goods of the earth among the regions and peoples of the earth, has therefore made them no less in the…

— Jozef-Ernest van Roey

The term 'human rights' has been too often associated with conditionality, and with concerns of developing countries that in order to benefit from open…

— Mary Robinson