“ Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied. Henry George
“ Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism. Henry George
“ Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital. Henry George
“ So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want… Henry George
“ It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over. Henry George
“ For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce. Henry George
“ He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. Henry George
“ The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a… Henry George
“ Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. 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 man. Henry George
“ What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. Henry George
“ The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will. Henry George
“ There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself. 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
“ The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. Henry George
“ The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical. 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 his contribution to the general stock. Henry George
