"While the farmer holds the title to..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.
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“It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.”
“The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.”
“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”
More on Land
“Buy land, they're not making it anymore.”
“Land taxes is the thing. They got so high that there is no chance to make anything. Not only land but all property tax. You see in the old days, why the only thing they knew how to tax was land, or a house. Well, that condition went along for quite awhile, so even today the whole country tries to run its revenue on taxes on land. They never ask if the land makes anything. "It's land ain't it? Well tax it then."”
“It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.”
More on Property
“Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow.”
“The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.”
“Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.”