"I attended the first meeting in Liverpool addressed by Henry George, held under the auspcies of the Financial Reform Association. Many people have been driven to study the land question through suffering hardship, incidental to our present system of land tenure. It was not so with me. So far, I have no personal tale of woe to record, nor has my family. I was attracted both by the moral and the economic bearings of the question on industry and social life. I applied the arguments used to my ownnative town. The more I investigated the matter the more proof I found in the soundness, and the justice, of taxing land values. ...Pass this measure into law and see how it will work. It will increase the marketplace quantity of land, and this can have but one result -- land will be cheaper: It will break down the monopoly and give free play to the natural progressive character of our British trade and commerce."

"Progress and Poverty is as true a description now as then of the evils of monopoly."

"I will finish about Henry George by asking all who at times feel despondent to take a turn with that great philosopher and if you have no time to read it all, be sure to read his chapters on population and the closing chapters written all those years ago. You will find them full of hope and full of warning. . . . Henry George as others before and since his day saw a great truth, not a mere individual or national one, but a truth which covers all life. I think it is a truth which comes to us from all religions, all philosophies. Just this simple truth: Love one another. Give up the pursuit of selfish in- terests. Lose your life and find it in the service of each other."

"When Mr. Lloyd George at theland demonstration, ... at the close of his indictment of the existing system asked what is to bedone, it was Alexander Leitch's voice that rang out: 'Tax land values'. He had taken a day's leave from his work and travelled ninety miles at his own expense to be present at the meeting."

Challenged the interpretation of left-wing Liberal principles articulated by Beveridge. Members tabled a wrecking amendment to the Full Employment resolution and distributed a memorandum arguing its incompatibility with principles of free trade, free enterprise, and land value taxation. [Source: Peter sloman, The Liberal Party and the Economy, 1929-1964, p.154]