What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. – Henry George
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
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism. – Henry George
The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive its organization is necessarily tyrannical. – Henry George
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act. – Charles Hodge