There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.

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

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.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

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

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.