Everybody Works But The Vacant Lot

When We Consider That Labor Is The Producer Of All Wealth, Is It Not Evident That The Impoverishment And, Dependence Of Labor Are Abnormal Conditions Resulting From Restrictions And Usurpations, And That Instead Of Accepting Protection, What Labor Should Demand Is Freedom. That Those Who Advocate Any Extension Of Freedom Choose To Go No Further Than Suits Their Own Special Purpose Is No Reason Why Freedom Itself Should Be Distrusted.

The Tolerance Of Wrong Dulls Our Sense Of Its Injustice. Men May Become Accustomed To Theft, Murder, Even To Slavery - That Sum Of All Villainies - So They See No Injustice In It, Yet That Which Is Unjust Is Unjust Still.

The Tax Upon Land Values Is The Most Just And Equal Of All Taxes. It Falls Only Upon Those Who Receive From Society A Peculiar And Valuable Benefit, And Upon Them In Proportion To The Benefit They Receive.it Is The Taking By The Community For The Use Of The Community Of That Value Which Is The Creation Of The Community. It Is The Application Of The Common Property To Common Uses. When All Rent Is Taken By Taxation For The Needs Of The Community, Then Will The Equality Ordained By Nature Be Attained.

It Is Not The Business Of Government To Make Men Virtuous Or Religious, Or To Preserve The Fool From The Consequences Of His Own Folly. Government Should Be Repressive No Further Than Is Necessary To Secure Liberty By Protecting The Equal Rights Of Each From Aggression On The Part Of Others, And The Moment Governmental Prohibitions Extend Beyond This Line They Are In Danger Of Defeating The Very Ends They Are Intended To Serve.

It Is Too Narrow An Understanding Of Production Which Confines It Merely To The Making Of Things. Production Includes Not Merely The Making Of Things, But The Bringing Of Them To The Consumer. The Merchant Or Storekeeper Is Thus As Truly A Producer As Is The Manufacturer, Or Farmer, And His Stock Or Capital Is As Much Devoted To Production As Is Theirs.