Henry George Quotes About Giving

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

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• Discovery can give no right of ownership, for whatever is discovered must have been already here to be discovered. If a man makes a wheelbarrow, or a book, or a picture, he has a moral right to that particular wheelbarrow, or book, or picture, but no right to ask that others be prevented from making similar things. Such a prohibition, though given for the purpose of stimulating discovery and invention, really in the long run operates as a check upon them.

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  Men  

  Henry George (1916). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth; the Remedy”

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

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  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• 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.

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  Men  

  Henry George (2006). “Protection Or Free Trade”, p.68, Cosimo, Inc.

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