"Similarly intolerable to most of Corning was Michael Higgins's support of Henry George's radical solution to the inequitable distribution of wealth in America." (p.18)

"If Mr. George were elected Avenue C would be as well taken care of as Fifth Avenue." New York Times, 29 September

"[Australia] is the best place on earth for Henry George to get a hearing. They are ahead of all other people as thinkers and they will accept the single tax inside of five years."

"I felt I was unable to make a cash contribution this year, but Gerritt Johnson's second letter led me to refigure -- with this result. I agree with him that now is the time to work -- not read."

"The power within our movement is in the simple truth we hold. The criterion of men and measures is trust in that power alone. We should retain the same simple measure constantly, until its truth knocks at every heart."

"If one can judge of the mental attitude of the electorate of California from an average sample, as it were, drawn from the stream of folks that flow continuously thru a mining camp, it would seem that an intelligent presentation of the Single Tax amendment is all that is required to insure its passage."

"If Massachusetts were to take the tax off the improvements and distribute it on unimproved land, we could drive the unsightly vacant lot away and stimulate improvements by removing the tax burden from them."

"I only wish I had the time and strength to continue the work indefinitely. My interest has been warm and steady for the last 42 years but I have never had such a gratifying opportunity of spreading the gospel until now." The Freeman, February

"'Things which are not' are indeed mightier than 'things that are'. In all ages men have fought most desperately for beautiful cities yet to be built and gardens yet to be planted. Satan did not digress to tell all he knew when he said: 'All that a man hath will he give for his life'. All he hath -- yet. But he sooner dies than yield aught of that which he hath not yet'."

"The above quotation is from the first public lecture by Eric Hoffer, longshoreman and author of 'The True Believer'."

"His address was the ninth in series at the San Francisco Henry George School."

"When hostilities begin, it is universally assumed that there is but a single serve which a loyal citizen can render to the state: that of bearing arms and killing the enemy. Will you understand me if I say, humbly and regretfully, that this I cannot, and will not do. ...No order of president or governor, no law of nation or state, no loss of reputation, freedom of life, will persuade me or force me to this business of killing."

"Is it correct to speak as if there were equality of economic opportunity when the resources of nature are legally in the hands of a small minority of the people?"

"All the powers of government should be directed against the unjust enrichment of any man,but to equalize wealth and income only to indulge the cupidity and envy of the majority, is a policy that leads to disaster. ...The moral grandeur of Henry George was never more evident than in his refusal to pit the Poor against the rich, and his plea that both should unite to eliminate injustice."

"The use of my name on Equity Tax Reform circulars and letterheads is entirely unwarranted, without my consent or knowledge. I have been and am now whole-heartedly for the frank moral issue of The Great Adventure -- whose only weakness was its employment of Charles James. He is now where he belongs."

"Conflict disclosed his loneliness, his fearfulness, his hatred of men who challenged his power. Conflict disclosed the Wilson who had bewildered liberals while he was President; who turned on old friends, who hated Cabot Lodge, who excoriated imperialism, and seized Haiti and San Domingo and sent battleships to Vera Cruz. It disclosed the Wilson who imprisoned men who quoted him against himself. When he himself was subjected to a personal test, he abandoned the ideals he had held before America."

"Society itself sabotages production. It sabotages the source of all wealth. All industry is dependent upon the resources of nature. ...Yet society has sanctioned a system that results in the great bulk of our national resources being kept out of use." (p.41)

"The Bureau of Lands of the Philippine Government recently purchased 'Progress and Poverty' for its reference library, the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation reports. Dr. Frederic C. Howe is economic adviser to President Manuel Quezon."

"You must win; your success means so much to the nation and all its people! As soon as you win there you must come to Florida and help us out here."

"Land values are public property. No one can dispute this and sustain the denial with facts or with even a shadow of logic."

"The remedy Henry George proscribed for economic ills was as simple as it was new, and new things and simple things are ever looked on as objectionable."

"Both were convinced by Henry George's single tax plan, Margaret Hughan was President of the Brooklyn Women's Single Tax Club."

"If Americanism means anything it means equality, free thought, free speech, free opportunity for the development of the individual and of the government."

"If in all countries those who wished to use the resources of the earth paid the rent to the Government, which exempted all the products of industry from taxation, there would be such a home market created that the nations would not have 'to fight for the markets of the world', and custom houses would not stand upon their borders as monuments to the enmity of nations!"