Henry George Quotes

We want people to take care of themselves. We want people to provide for themselves. We want people to enjoy the fruits of their labors. We want people to enjoy reaching out and making their dreams come true. We want people to realize their life's dreams and passions. You need a growing economy for this.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

The major challenge facing us is to elevate our national life to the highest level of civilization and prosperity.

The object sought to be accomplished is the improvement of the condition of man. The mode by which it is to be accomplished is that of increasing his productive power. The more food a man can raise, the more and better food may he consume, and the larger will be the surplus that can be appropriated to the purchase of clothing, to the education of his family, to the enlargement of his house, or to the improvement of his machinery, and the greater will be the amount of leisure that can be appropriated to the improvement of his modes of thought.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

Productivity growth is the only possible way to achieve prosperity.

We're going to make America rich again. We're going to make our country great again. And we need the rich in order to make the great.

Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hopes will die fasting. There are no gains without pains. He that hath a trade hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor; but then the trade must be worked at and the calling followed, or neither the estate nor the office will enable us to pay our taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while idleness and neglect increase them.

A country becomes more prosperous in proportion to the rise in the invested capital unit per unit of its population.

Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.

Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.

Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

We're going to make America wealthy again, because if you don’t do that, it just - it sounds harsh to say, but we have to build up the wealth of our nation.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Prosperity's right hand is industry and her left hand is frugality.

I want to bring wealth back to our country so we can afford them.

We have to make our country rich again before we can make it great again.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

The only way to buy more is to produce more.

We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

Real wealth of a nation is the people.

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

Our GDP growth rates are creating - our high GDP growth rates, the success of our economy means we're creating lots of disposable income.

People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.