Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.
Henry GeorgeIf you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
Henry GeorgeIt is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry GeorgePoverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Henry George