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The tax upon land values is the most just and equal of all taxes. It falls only upon those who receive from society a peculiar and valuable benefit, and upon them in proportion to the benefit they receive.It is the taking by the community for the use of the community of that value which is the creation of the community. It is the application of the common property to common uses. When all rent is taken by taxation for the needs of the community, then will the equality ordained by nature be attained.

Henry George's Popular Quotes

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

- Henry George

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

- 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

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

- 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

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

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

- Henry George

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

- Henry George

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

- Henry George