A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

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.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

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