Henry George Quotes

He who commences many things finishes but few.

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

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.

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

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Business and action strengthen the brain, but too much study weakens it.

Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.

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

He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one.

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

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

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

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Abolish all taxation save that upon land values.

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.

Every potter praises his own pot.

Two blacks make no white; two wrongs do not make a right.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Give and spend And God will send.

Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

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

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

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.

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

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.

The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.