“Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.”
Henry George“...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and that Progress, incessant and continued, is the great law of the human race'Dr Henry George Charles Clarke, 1847.Quoted in Champion of the Quarterdeck (2017)”
Dr Henry George Charles Clarke“He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.”
Henry George“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“It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.”
Henry George“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“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.”
Henry George“There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.”
Henry George“There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.”
Henry George“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want progress is not real and cannot be permanent.”
Henry George“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