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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.
Henry George
Power
Influence
Light
Man
May
How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?
Henry George
Men
Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital.
Henry George
Force
Labor
Production
Result
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
Henry George
Country
Man
Right
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.
Henry George
Act
Trade
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
Henry George
Truth
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Henry George
Man
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Henry George
Change
Blind
Conservatism
Danger
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
Henry George
Imagination
Invention
Mankind
March
The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.
Henry George
Man
Will
That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
Henry George
Harm
Profit
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Henry George
Children
Clothes
Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
Henry George
Labor
World
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
Henry George
Power
Civilization
Wealth