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Henry George (September 2, 1839 - October 29, 1897) was an American political economist and the most influential proponent of the "Single Tax" on land. He was the author of Progress and Poverty , written in 1879.
There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to human life higher elevation or greater fullness he is, in the larger meaning of the words, a ' producer,' a ' working man,' a ' laborer,' and is honestly earning honest wages.
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.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Poverty is the open mouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which it just can really harm no one.
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