98 Quotes by Henry George

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

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

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

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

My primary object is to defend and advance a principle in which I see the only possible relief from much that enthralls and degrades and distorts, turning light to darkness and good to evil, rather than to gage a philosopher or weigh a philosophy. Yet the examination I propose must lead to a decisive judgment upon both.

Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.

The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.

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

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.