That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man..

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man..

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….

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man..

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of….

How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brut….

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 the….

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..

There are only three ways by which any individual can get wealth — by work, by gift or by theft. And, clearly, the reason why the workers get so litt….

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster..

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

To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted ….

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act..

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

Everybody works but the vacant lot.

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

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

one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to….

The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind….

For as labor cannot produce without the use of land, the denial of the equal right to the use of land is necessarily the denial of the labor to its o….

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