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"The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head."

-Jems, the Carpenter's Son.

"The rent of land, therefor, considered as the price paid for the use of land is naturally a monopoly price." * * * * * * *

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlord's love to reap where they have not sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce."

—Adam Smith.

"The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals and dwellings of the tenants."

—Dean Swift.

'There should be but one tax, and that upon land-"

— Von Humboldt

"If the bulk of the human race are always to remain as at present, slaves to toil in which they have no interest, and therefore feel no interest-drudging from early morning till late at night for bare necessities and with all the intellectual and moral deficiencies which that implies-without resources either in mind or feeling-untaught, for they cannot be better taught than fed; selfish, for all their thoughts are required for themselves; without interests or sentiments as citizens and members of society, and with a sense of injustice rankling in their minds, equally for what they have not and what others have; I know not what there is which should make a person of any capacity of reason concern himself about the destinies of the human race."

—John Stuart Mill.

" It is my firm conviction that, at the present moment, the best and most needed service that can be done to the human race, is the promulgation of sound doctrines in regard to the land, with the view to its eventual, and I hope, speedy resumption by the people, whose inalienable and indispensable heritage it is.

—Wm. Webster.