Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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.

Henry George's Popular Quotes

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

- Henry George

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 sh…

- Henry George

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

- Henry George

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

- Henry George

The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their exist…

- Henry George

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

- Henry George

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

- Henry George

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

- Henry George

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; …

- Henry George