Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948):

There is enough for everybody's need, but not enough for their greed.

Bible: Leviticus XXVv23

The land shall not be sold forever; for the land is Mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with Me. Moses (1400 BC)

Henry Thomas Buckle, (1821-1862)

The landlords are perhaps the only large class whose interests are diametrically opposed to those of the people.

George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950)

The greatest of evils and the worst of evils is poverty. I went quite casually one night into a hall in London, and I heard a man deliver a speech which changed the whole current of my life. That man was an American, Henry George. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. Whether it is the man or the earth I own, the bird or its food, it is essentially the same thing. As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Patrick Edward Dove

"The Theory of Human Progression": The land is for the nation, and not for the aristocracy.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

Social Contract: The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, "This is mine", and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes, might not anyone have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes, filling in the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this imposter; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."

Dr Sun Yat-Sen, (1866-1925)

The land tax as the only means of supporting the government is an infinitely just, reasonable, and equitably-distributed tax, and on it we will found our new system.

Pliny the Elder (23-79)

Land monopoly ruined Rome.

Thomas Carlyle, (1795-1881)

Properly speaking, the land belongs to these two: the almighty God and to all his children of men. (Past and Present)

Bible: Eccles. 5:9

The profit of the earth is for all.