Henry George Quotes
How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.
George, Henry. Social Problems. Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883, p. 19.
President-elect Kennedy had asked the poet to write and present a poem for the inaugural.
Arguing that the Arabs will never agree willingly to a Jewish state:
The line, like many in good poetry, has several levels of meaning. The most obvious is that we had explored and conquered the land, before we became a nation.
Earlier, treaties had been negotiated whereby whites purchased certain Indian lands. Tecumseh and others had objected not only to the concept of land sale, but to those who had sold the lands {612650}.
See {638124} for how this Biblical passage evolved into a concept of property ownership
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.
