I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

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

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.

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.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

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.