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Henry George

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


— Henry George


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


— Henry George


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


— Henry George


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


— Henry George


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


— Henry George


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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.


— Henry George


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


— Henry George


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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


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


— Henry George


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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.


— Henry George


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Planes and other sorts of inert matter (and the most lent item of all—money itself) earn interest indirectly by being part of the same "circle of exchange" with fruitful forms of wealth such as those so that tying up these forms of wealth over time incurs an opportunity cost. Bastiat had asked his readers to consider James and William both carpenters. Economic contributions
George developed what he saw as a crucial feature of his own theory of economics in a critique of an illustration used by Frédéric Bastiat in order to explain the nature of interest and profit.

Henry George (September 2 1839 – October 29 1897) was an American writer politician and political economist who was the most influential proponent of the land value tax also known as the "single tax" on land. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism whose main tenet is that people should own what they create but that everything found in nature most importantly the value of land belongs equally to all humanity.

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