"I shall wait with great expectation for the appearance of your new book which will contain the so much needed criticism of the orthodox political economy."

"That is a great work -- 80,000 peasants rescued from the awful conditions of poverty you have described and placed in their present security is a very hopeful prospect for the future of your country. But ... they paid too much for their deliverance. How will they and theothers bear the burden of such payments in time to come? Henry George was right! Compensation to the landlords is morally wrong. It is rewarding a class for the successful robbery of the people."

"The proper application of the Georgian taxation of land values is a tax upon the mentality of a people beyond the capacity of a Nation not ten per cent of whom have learned to read. They can't understand it. They can only understand socialism at present. Some day, with a higher average of intelligence, we may adopt the taxation of land values and enjoy economic freedom, but not now." [as quoted by Raymond Robins after an interview following the war; Globe Democract, St. Louis, 27 January; reprinted in Land and Freedom, March-April

"A statement attributed to Nikolai Lenin, in an interview with Col. Raymond robins, is as follows: 'The proper application of the Georgean taxation of land values is a tax on the mentality of a people and beyond the capacity of a nation not ten per cent of whom have learned to read. They cannot understand it. They can only understand socialism at present. Some day, with a higher average intelligence, we may adopt the taxation of land values and enjoy economic freedom, but not now'.

I did discuss with Nikolai Lenin, the master-mind of the Soviet Revolution in Russia, land value taxation and the fundamentals of the philosophy of Henry George. He did reply, that the Revolution was made by class-conscious Marxian Socialists, that this was his (Lenin's) philosophy, plus communism and collectivism, that George's program was all right for individualist democracy -- but that collectivism was now forced by the machine age. He did not indicate any personal sympathy with the teachings of Henry George, but seemed to think that George was among the religious mystics and quoted Tolstoi as his disciple. I do not wish to indicate Lenin gave serious consideration at that time to land value taxation, he having read Progress and Poverty many years before and decided in favor of the gospel according to Karl Marx'."