Ownership Of Land Quotes

• It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

  William Graham Sumner

  Growing Up, Land, Foundation

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.43, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused by a natural urge in men to fight, that ownership of land and factories is not necessarily the natural reward of greater wisdom and energy.

  Jessica Mitford

  War, Fighting, Men

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• Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

  Henry George

  Land, Class, Progress

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.254, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Land, World

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.112, Booklassic

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• If government ownership of land and natural resources was the best way to protect the environment, then we should have found a Garden of Eden in the Soviet Union after the Iron Curtain came down. Instead, there was one environmental horror story after another.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Garden, Horror Stories, Land

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