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Progress and Poverty
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"Progress and Poverty" Quotes

The book "Progress and Poverty" explores the relationship between technological progress and economic inequality.

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The natural reward of labor is wages.

Henry George

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We must make land common property.

Henry George

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The march of civilization has ever been a march of wider monopoly.

Henry George

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Property is the right to use and abuse within the limits of the law.

Henry George

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The march of improvement has not freed the lower classes from poverty.

Henry George

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The great cause of inequality in the distribution of wealth is inequality in the ownership of land.

Henry George

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The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air.

Henry George

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The ownership of land is the great fundamental fact which ultimately determines the social, the political, and consequently the moral condition of a people.

Henry George

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We must make land common property, and then we can do away with taxes.

Henry George

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The power of taxing the people is the power to destroy.

Henry George

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