Freedoms Edge: Freedom the only end

Freedom: the only end.

	Freedom: the only end "When Mazzini quarrelled with the Austrian government he took refuge in England. When Lenin quarrelled with the Czar he took refuge in Switzerland, and even Trotsky himself, when he quarrelled with Stalin, was able to find a home in Mexico. Where then, when the individual disapproves of the world state, will he go?"
	Frederick McEachran

Freedom: the only end

"When Mazzini quarrelled with the Austrian government he took refuge in England. When Lenin quarrelled with the Czar he took refuge in Switzerland, and even Trotsky himself, when he quarrelled with Stalin, was able to find a home in Mexico.
Where then, when the individual disapproves of the world state, will he go?"

Frederick McEachran

Frederic Bastiat

The Law
The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!

Henry George

"In the production of wealth land cannot act; it can only be acted upon. man alone is the actor."

"Landowners, as landowners, are as purely passive in production as land itself; they take no part in production whatever."

Ode to Liberty

a speech by Henry George
4 July 1877,

afterwards incorporated in PROGRESS AND POVERTY under the chapter
“The Central Truth.”

It may be downloaded in .pdf format below

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Thomas Paine
"The Rights of Man"

"Men did not make the
earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds."

John Locke

Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a "property" in his own "person." This nobody has any right to but himself. The "labour" of his body and the "work" of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that Nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with it, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property. It being by him removed from the common state Nature placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men. For this "labour" being the unquestionable property of the labourer, no man but he can have a right to what that is once joined to, at least where there is enough, and as good left in common for others

"It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they be theoretically equal before the law.
They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life;
They must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of nature."

Henry George