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The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.

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It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.
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The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.
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The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air - it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world and others no right.
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There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
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That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.
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For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed the only animal that is never satisfied.
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