Land Quote by William Graham Sumner

It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations…

— William Graham Sumner

We had a large common domain, already added by the several States for the common benefit of all; purchase and war might make large…

— Robert Toombs

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter,…

— Christian Lous Lange

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

— John D. Rockefeller

“Once land gets in a state, once it begins to deteriorate, it is hard to reverse the process. Land falls sick just like people—that's…

— Brian W. Aldiss

“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

First we had the land and they had the Bibles, now we have the Bibles and they have the land

— Chief Dan George

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle…

— John Adams

We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it,…

— William H. Whyte

“We all have come here from somewhere else, and the vast majority of us are only a few generations removed from another land. Whether…

— Dan Rather

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

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

— Friedrich August von Hayek