Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry George

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.

Henry George

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.

Henry George

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

Henry George

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.

Henry Hazlitt

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.

Henry Hazlitt

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It is often complained that demagogues can be more plausible in putting forward economic nonsense from the platform than the honest men who try to show what is wrong with it.

Henry Hazlitt

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

Henry Hazlitt

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

Henry Bromell

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

Henry Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry Beston

Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.

Henry Cavill

I'm from a family of six men, so I'm bound to be physical.

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

Helmut Schmidt

[Ronald] Reagan seems to be a man of some basic convictions and on the other hand willing to let others do the ground homework, the detailed work.

Helmut Schmidt

Ronad Reagan might go down to history as a man who in the end of this administration brought about the first nuclear arms reduction treaty, the first arms reduction treaty at all in the modern world, and this is quite something.

Helmut Schmidt

I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

Henepola Gunaratana

Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through.

Hector Berlioz

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

Hedda Hopper

I couldn't remember ever having seen a young man with such power, so many facets of expression, so much sheer invention as an actor.

Hedi Slimane

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Hedi Slimane

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Heber J. Grant

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

Heber J. Grant

The minute a man stops supplicating God for His Spirit and direction, just so soon he starts out to become a stranger to Him and His works. When men stop praying for God's Spirit, they place confidence in their own unaided reason, and they gradually lose the Spirit of God.

Heber J. Grant

He will be our comfort and solace, our guide and counselor, our salvation and exaltation, for "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved."

Hedy Lamarr

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Hedy Lamarr

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

Hedy Lamarr

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

Heather Mills

I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

Heather Mills

I fell in love with a man, not a Beatle.

Hector Hugh Munro

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

Henry David Thoreau

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

Henry David Thoreau

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?