For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
Henry GeorgeWhat has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry GeorgeThe protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.
Henry GeorgeWhat protectionism teaches us, is to do to ourselves in time of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war.
Henry GeorgeThe value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.
Henry GeorgeLiberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law. They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of Nature.
Henry George