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Quotes by Henry George
Subjects. Party Politics. 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 right to be in this world, and others no right.— filed under Equality
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.— filed under William, Earl Of Stirling
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 contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.— filed under Progression
Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, Fanueil Hall. Jan. 27, 1843. The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.— filed under Slavery
For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.— filed under Society
and Ox. 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.— filed under Wealth