Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

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.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

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.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.