Henry George Quotes
As man is so constituted that it is utterly impossible for him to attain happiness save by seeking the happiness of others, so does it seem to be of the nature of things that individuals and classes can obtain their own just rights only by struggling for the rights of others.
George, Henry. Social Problems. Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883, p. 367.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
This was not what was inscribed on his gravestone when he died. See {639151} for the actual text.
AEI, though a conservative think-tank, with this approach departed far from the then current Republican Party that was highly influenced or even controlled by the Tea Party faction.
Henry George was an American political economist and journalist. His writing was immensely popular in 19th-century America and sparked several reform movements of the Progressive Era. He inspired the economic philosophy known as Georgism, the belief that people should own the value they produce themselves, but that the economic value derived from land (including natural resources) should belong equally to all members of society. He argued that a single tax on land would create a more productive, more just society.
