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The needs of labor require more than kind words, and are not to be satisfied by such soft phrases as we address to a horse when we want to catch him that we may put a bit in his mouth and a saddle on his back.

— Henry George Protection or Free Trade? (1886)

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There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

Progress and Poverty (1879)

It is too narrow an understanding of production which confines it merely to the making of things. Production includes not merely the making of things, but the bringing of them to the consumer.

Progress and Poverty (1879)

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 existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right.

Progress and Poverty (1879)

In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

Social Problems (1883)

The rights of men to the use of land are not joint rights: they are equal rights.

A Perplexed Philosopher (1892)

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