Quotes by Henry George

Henry George

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

Admirable

Very Good

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery — a bare living.

Land

Use

Wages

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

Individual

Nations

Produce

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

Charity

Justice

Substitutes

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

Fighting

Progress

Water

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Vacant

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.

Enough

Human Nature

Swine

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

Country

Men

Squares

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

Dollars

Men

Million Dollars

I am firmly convinced, as I have already said, that to effect any great social improvement, it is sympathy rather than self-interest, the sense of duty rather than the desire for self-advancement, that must be appealed to. Envy is akin to admiration, and it is the admiration that the rich and powerful excite which secures the perpetuation of aristocracies.

Envy

Powerful

Self

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Animal

Aristocracy

Beast

Bottom

Brotherhood

California

Charity

Children

Civilization

Class

Conclusion

Country

Creative

Desire

Dies

Distribution Of Wealth

Doe

Dollars

Dream

Economic Inequality

Endure

Enemy

Enough

Envy

Evil

Faith

Farmers

Fighting

Gentleman

Giving

Hell

Home

Human Nature

Imagine

Individual

Influence

Justice

Laissez Faire Capitalism

Land

Law

Leadership

Libertarian Party

Long

Luxury

Matter

May

Mean

Men

Million Dollars

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Quotes by Henry George

Henry George

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

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

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

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

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.

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

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

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