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Henry George quotes: Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

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

Henry George quotes: There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

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

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

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

Henry George quotes: If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

Henry George quotes: The people must think because the people alone can act.

The people must think because the people alone can act.

Henry George quotes: How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.

Henry George quotes: The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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

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

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

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

Henry George quotes: How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?

Henry George quotes: Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

Henry George quotes: Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

Henry George quotes: God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

Henry George quotes: Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George quotes: That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Henry George quotes: That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

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

Henry George quotes: Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Henry George quotes: Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Henry George quotes: Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

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

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

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

Henry George quotes: Everybody works but the vacant lot

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Henry George quotes: Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

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

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

Henry George quotes: What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Henry George quotes: It is not from top to bottom that societies die; it is from bottom to top.

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

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

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

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

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

Henry George quotes: That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Henry George quotes: As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

Henry George quotes: Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

Henry George quotes: He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Henry George quotes: Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

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

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