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Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the ...

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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfi...

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Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of soc...

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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the m...

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The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him...

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It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is i...

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortune...

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There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is...

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There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of t...

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He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

The state it cannot too often be repeated does nothing and can give nothing which it does not ta...

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The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each g...

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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of na...

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The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - ...

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Henry George

Writer

Born: 1839-09-02

Died: 1897-10-29

Henry George (September 2, 1839 – October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value of land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. George famously argued that a single tax on land values would create a more productive and just society.More