At the beginning of this marvelous era it was natural to expect, and it was expected, that laborsaving inventions would lighten the toil and improve the condition of the laborer; that the enormous increase in the power of producing wealth would make real poverty a thing of the past... From Progress and Poverty, To those who, seeing the vice and misery that spring from the unequal distribution of wealth and privilege, feel the possibility of a higher social state and would strive for its attainment.

Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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

The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.

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

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

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