Henry George Quotes About Politics

• 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.

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  Henry George

  Wisdom   Men   Numbers  

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.

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  Henry George

  Religious   Men   Rights  

  Henry George, A. C. Auchmuty (1908). “Gems from Henry George: being memorable passages from the writings and addresses of the author of "Progress and poverty"”

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

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  Wisdom   Politics   Firsts  

  Henry George (1912). “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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