"...it has not only been unearned; it has been drawn from the earnings of others. My gain is others' loss. ... But in the case of the unearned increment on land there is no pretence of any exchange. I offer for it neither labour nor the produce of labour."

"The Advertiser with a most charming naivete says in one of its leaders, 'Labor is an important social force'. Is it indeed. And pray Sir, suppose you take away Labor, what is left?"

"Reid refused to exploit the economic crisis of 1892-93 for party ends. Indeed he gave Dibbs vital support in the measures necessary to alleviate the effects of the bank smash at the end of April 1893, but he maintained pressure on the government and steered his party between the old-fashioned desire for free trade without direct taxation, the enthusiasms for the single taxers, and those who like Wise saw in a land tax the panacea for economic ills."

"This work is addressed primarily to the clergy whom he accuses of neglecting the plain teachings of their] precepts."

"I found him a true-hearted humanitarian, as devoted to the gospel of the singl tax as his father had been to that of anti-slavery." [From Spence's autobiography, p.95]

"He made no alliance with any power except the power of truth."