William Shakespeare Quotes
We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, Washington Square Press, 1992.
The major revenue of the Federal Government had initially been import duties. (There was no income tax then.) The sale of the vast public lands turned out to be another Federal income source.
His expedition to Kentucky was illegal as it was against British law to expand to the West. Soon, hundreds of thousands of Americans would follow Boone and his men.
Use included renting it. What he opposed was simply holding land when whites were driving Indians off their lands because all the unused land outside of the reservation was owned by someone and the asking price was very high. Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
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}.
While Turgot was right about so much, this was one of his big errors—the assumption that land was fundamental to and necessary for, wealth. In many countries it is still true, but of the recent billionaires like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Carlos Slim and most others, they own very little land. In the United States and Canada, there are large tracts of land that few or no one will buy and a cast majority of people do not make their living from land.
This quotation is interesting in that the Madison Administration was being very careful to not alienate the Indians in Federal land purchases. Although there are many who believe the whites never should have enticed Indians to sell land at all, there were many cases where the land sales were fraudulent and gross—The Cherokee Indians in Georgia. At this time, the Federal government would negotiate an amount for some land and pay the Indian tribe the agreed upon sum. Then another tribe might claim that the land was really theirs, they had also been hunting or living there. In some cases there were Indian wars and one tribe had banished another. Madison’s policy which he reported in this speech was to negotiate with BOTH tribes separately and pay them each the agreed upon amount—he tells the public that it is worth paying double to avoid bad feelings among the Indians. Jefferson and Madison in particular had relatively liberal Indian policies. It was President Jackson who had the worst Indian policy and produced a large proportion of immoral actions, atrocities and subsequent bad feeling.
See {638124} for how this Biblical passage evolved into a concept of property ownership
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. They also continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
