Henry George Quotes

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly. Government should be repressive no further than is necessary to secure liberty by protecting the equal rights of each from aggression on the part of others, and the moment governmental prohibitions extend beyond this line they are in danger of defeating the very ends they are intended to serve.

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The fundamental principle of human action, the law that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion.

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