The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

What protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

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.

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.